Saúde dos professores da educação básica da rede estadual de Minas Gerais na pandemia da COVID-19: Projeto ProfSMoc – Etapa Minas Covid

Abstract

This thesis aimed to evaluated health situations of basic education teachers of public schools of Minas Gerais state in the COVID-19 pandemic. This is an epidemiological survey of the websurvey type. The data collection occur between August and September of 2020, via digital forms, addressing questions about working conditions and health outcomes among teachers in the pandemic. At the end of data collection, 15.641 teachers participated among approximately 90.000 potential participants. Among them, 81,9% were women, 56,2% were between 41 and 60 years old, 66,8% lived with a partner and 72,6% had children. From this data, this thesis shows six main scientific products. The 1st product was an e-book, which addressed the main outcomes of the project. The 2nd product aimed describe the working conditions, lifestyle and mental health of the teachers during the pandemic, showing that 33,7% of them were dissatisfied with work, 50,5% showed worse dietary pattern and 82,3% had at least one problem of mental health. The 3rd product estimated the diagnosis prevalence of anxiety and depression during the pandemic and aimed identified the associated factors, using Binary Logistic Regression. Among the teachers, 25% and 8,5% related medical diagnosis of anxiety and depression during the pandemic time, respectively. There was greater chance of diagnosis of anxiety and depression among women, those who had an intense fear of COVIDD-19, with sleep problems, those who were smokers and among teachers with obesity. In the 4th product, the association between the practice of physical activity during the pandemic and the fear of COVID-19 was investigated, using the Poisson Regression. The outcomes indicated that the longer the time devoted to physical activity practice during the pandemic, the lower the prevalence of fear of COVID-19. The 5th study aimed to verify the gender differences related to teachers’ excess of body weight. The outcomes indicated that 51,1% of women and 58,2% of men were overweight, with a significative difference. The 6th study investigated the interrelationship between the factors that influenced body weight gain during the pandemic time, directly and indirectly, through Structural Equation Modeling. The increase of body weight during the pandemic was directly influenced by females, lower income, of younger teachers, with greater fear of COVID-19 and among those who increased the time spent using computer. Regardless of indirect effect, the modeling indicated that physical activity practice, the higher per capita income, higher fear of COVID-19, being younger and having a medical diagnosis of anxiety and depression, when mediated by computer use, acted on the increased of body weight during the pandemic time. In general, the pandemic resulted in worse physical and mental health of teachers, showing that women, high weekly workload, job dissatisfaction, greater fear of COVID-19 and sleep problems were associated issues. to the main health outcomes studied among teachers.