Assessing the mental health status of teachers (Case Study: A high schools in Qom)

Teachers are among the most important social assets of the education system and their mental health is more important than other social classes due to the strategic role it plays in students' mental health.Given the similarity of the goals of the education system and mental health, which both aim to build healthy, useful, efficient and happy human beings, the need for such studies and studies in education is considered important.With the understanding of the above necessity, the present study was conducted to investigate the status and level of mental health of high school teachers in Qom province so that by diagnosing the condition, steps can be taken to improve the level of health and, consequently, teachers' functions and effective training of students.The study population was applied research (descriptive-survey), all teachers and teachers of high schools in Qom province were 2800 people who were selected using random sampling method, a sample of 328 teachers of different educational levels. The instruments used to assess the level of mental health were Goldberg questionnaire and four dimensions and due to the normality of the data, one-sample t-test was used to test the hypotheses.The results show that 95.61% of high school teachers in the province are healthy and only 3.96% have been diagnosed as unhealthy. These results indicate the existence of high mental health among teachers. Meanwhile, similar to most previous studies, female teachers with an average mental health of 20.58 have better mental health than male teachers with an average of 17.47. In general, the results showed that mental health and dimensions of physical symptoms, anxiety and sleep disorders, social dysfunction and depression in high school teachers in Qom province are in good condition.