Assessment of the state of health of teachers of secondary schools

Introduction. Among the leading risk factors affecting the teaching contingent in their labour activity, psychoemotional stress, load on the vocal apparatus, hypodynamia, and prolonged forced posture are distinguished. As a result of hypodynamia — there is a violation of blood circulation, deterioration of the venous and lymphatic systems and further development of arterial hypertension (AH), overweight, varicose veins (VV), a decrease in the body’s immune forces, leading to frequent colds and chronic pathology of ENT organs. Therefore, the study of the health status of teachers, the prevention of diseases is an urgent task today. 

The purpose of the study is to assess the health status of teachers in general education schools based on many clinical and ultrasound examinations. 

Materials and methods. The object of the research was 78 teachers of secondary schools. All subjects were females, with an average age of 53.4 ± 8.3 years, an average work experience of 32.1 ± 9.1 years. Clinical and ultrasound examinations were carried out. 

Results. During clinical examination by narrow specialists, the detection of ENT organ pathology in the study group per 100 examined patients was 52 cases (66.6 ± 6.5%), 89 (114.1 ± 4.3%) cases — therapeutic pathology (among which arterial hypertension prevailed), 56 (71.8 ± 6.1%) cases of the endocrine system and 72 (92.3 ± 3.2%) cases of diseases of the nervous system. The frequency of pathological changes in the abdominal cavity and urinary system during screening ultrasound was 86% of cases, the thyroid gland — 70.0 ± 1.0% of cases. 

Conclusion. A clinical examination of the health status of teachers with more than ten years of experience has established one of the first places to be occupied by therapeutic pathology, in the form of CVS diseases, in the second place are diseases of the nervous system (vertebral pathology), the third-place belongs to diseases of the ENT organs and the endocrine system.

Contribution:

Katamanova E.V. — concept and design of the study, writing the text, formatting and editing the article;

Tikhonova I.V. — concept and design of the study, collection of material and data processing, text writing;

Kodinets I.N. — collection of material and data processing, statistical processing;

Kovalchuk N.V. — collection of material and data processing;

Pavlenko N.A. — collection of material and data processing, text writing.

All co-authors — approval of the final version of the article.

Conflict of interest. The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Acknowledgement. The study had no sponsorship.

Received: October 11, 2021 / Accepted: November 25, 2021 / Published: December 30, 2021