Avaliação da frequência do uso de antidepressivos por professores de uma escola estadual no Rio Grande do Sul.

Abstract

Depression is currently considered as the main cause of disability in the world, becoming a major public health problem. Mental illness tends to strongly impact people's lives, bringing losses in the personal and professional context of the individual, which consequently reflects in difficulty to live and work in a healthy and productive way. Intense and repeated stress is an important factor that leads to losses in serotoninergic neurotransmission, predisposing the individual to depression. The teacher of the public education network needs to live with stressful factors daily and is one of the professions most prone to the development of psychoemotional diseases such as Burnout syndrome and depression, because its mental illness is increasingly related to poor working conditions. Its devaluation, reflected in low remuneration, makes teachers have to adhere to a multiple working day, reducing their free hours to improve their professional qualification and having less time to prepare classes and for your leisure. In this context, we sought to verify the prevalence of the use of antidepressants by teachers of a school in the state education network in the city of Rio Pardo/RS. For this, a questionnaire was applied to the professors, of an anonymous character, where variables such as gender, age, salary, weekly workload, time of profession, number of students per class were evaluated, which form of bond Use antidepressant medications or sleeping medications. After analyzing the data obtained in this study, a frequency of 35.5% of teachers using antidepressant medication was observed, and sertraline was the most commonly used drug. The association between the variables workload, number of students, time of service and economic reality in relation to the mental health of these teachers were not significant due to the small number of the sample, 31 people. However, by tracing the profile of the studied teachers, it was concluded that most of them feel stressed, tired and can devote little time to themselves and their families. The insertion of integrative and complementary practices (PICS) such as meditation and aromatherapy, could make the work environment more enjoyable for these state school teachers and help in their mental health.