In the last few decades, the world has seen a significant increase in the occurrence of occupational diseases related to Burnout Syndrome (professional exhaustion) and stress in educators. These disorders affect mental health and teaching activity. In this way, they need to develop socio-emotional skills to cope with the psychosocial stressors related to the school environment. Currently, mindfulness-based therapies have been recommended to help educators acquire emotional self-control, and to improve self-esteem, metacognition, attention, resilience and affectivity, in addition to better the social skills needed in the school milieu. The main objective of the proposed research project is to elaborate a program of Mindfulness-Based Health Promotion - educators (MBHP - educa) to be applied to a population of Brazilian public school educators. The efficacy of the program will be evaluated by cognitive testing. Blood tests for the above-mentioned stress-related molecules will be performed. The goal of developing the MBHP - educa Program is to promote and ameliorate the health care of public school teachers. Developing such a research proposal will contribute to debate and implement public health policies focussed on promoting the health of public school teachers in Brazil.
In the last few decades, the world has seen a significant increase in the occurrence of occupational diseases related to Burnout Syndrome (professional exhaustion) and stress in educators. These disorders affect mental health and teaching activity. In this way, they need to develop socio-emotional skills to cope with the psychosocial stressors related to the school environment. Currently, mindfulness-based therapies have been recommended to help educators acquire emotional self-control, and to improve self-esteem, metacognition, attention, resilience and affectivity, in addition to better the social skills needed in the school milieu. A few published studies indicate that mindfulness practices also reduce some inflammation- and stress- related molecules such as cortisol, receptor-interacting serine/threonine kinase 2 (RIPK2), cyclooxygenase 2 (COX2), interleukin 6 (IL-6), tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) and epigenetic-regulation related histone deacetilases (HDAC). These indicator molecules can be measured in blood. The World Health Organisation (WHO-2013) recommends the worldwide implementation of strategies for the promotion of mental health, which are particularly aimed at preventing occupational diseases. The main objective of the proposed research project is to elaborate a program of Mindfulness-Based Health Promotion - educators (MBHP - educa) to be applied to a population of Brazilian public school educators. The efficacy of the program will be evaluated by cognitive testing. Blood tests for the above-mentioned stress-related molecules will be performed. The goal of developing the MBHP - educa Program is to promote and ameliorate the health care of public school teachers. Developing such a research proposal will contribute to debate and implement public health policies focussed on promoting the health of public school teachers in Brazil.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
146
This intervention is a meditative practice which the individuals will practice in their daily life following the MBHP-educa protocol
Centro Mente Aberta de Mindfulness e Promoção de Saúde
São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
World Health Organization Quality of Life-BREF (WHOQOL-BREF)
To evaluate quality of life through five subscales: physical domain - mean of responses psychological domain - mean of responses relationships domain - mean of responses environment domain - mean of responses quality of life and perception of life - mean of responses \*each question response range one to five points Higher scores - Better Quality of Life
Time frame: Pre-test, Post-test and follow-up (12 months)
Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index
To evaluate the Sleep Quality - sum of responses score \*each questions have a specific conversion to range zero to six Higher scores - better sleep quality
Time frame: Pre-test, Post-test and follow-up (12 months)
Morningness-eveningness questionnaire - sum *Range 16 to 86 *higher scorer - more morningness type
To evaluate person's circadian rhythm (biological clock) (sum of all responses)
Time frame: Pre-test, Post-test and follow-up (12 months)
Glutathione metabolism from blood samples
GSH plasma levels, Cysteine and homocisteine serum levels
Time frame: Pre-test, Post-test and follow-up (12 months)
Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10)
to evaluate the level of subjectively noticed stress, composed of 10 items
Time frame: Pre-test, Post-test and follow-up (12 months)
Determination of cytokine levels in serum samples.
To evaluate the interleukin-8 (IL-8), interleukin-1β (IL-1β), interleukin-6 (IL-6), interleukin-10 (IL-10), tumor necrosis factor (TNF) e interleukin-12p70 (IL-12p70) \*Concentration in micromol per liter. (mean and standard deviation, median and quartile per groups)
Time frame: Pre-test, Post-test and follow-up (12 months)
Connor-Davidson Resilience Rating Scale
The CD-RISC is a 25-item measure of resilience.
Time frame: Pre-test, Post-test and follow-up (12 months)
Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS)
To evaluate positive and negative Affect through two subscales: positive affect - sum negative affect - sum * each question range one to five * higher score - more frequent
Time frame: Pre-test, Post-test and follow-up (12 months)
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