Sickness presenteeism, stress and burnout among Thai and foreign teachers, teaching elementary school, Chonburi municipality
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The objectives of this study were 1) to study the prevalence of health outcomes, including sickness presenteeism, stress, and burnout, 2) to compare of health outcomes between Thai and foreign teachers, and 3) to relationships between various health outcomes among Thai and foreign teachers. The population of 1,055 teachers, the sample size was calculated to be 400 teachers. The tool used as a questionnaire consisted of demographic data, sickness presenteeism, stress, and burnout. The tool passed the index of item objective congruence test with a value between 0.67 - 1.00 and passed the Cronbach's alpha test for the following: sickness presenteeism, stress, and burnout, equal to 0.89, 0.77, and 0.81, respectively. The inferential statistics used were independent t-test and pearson's correlation. The study found that 35.0% of sickness presenteeism in teachers, having the highest level of stress, 5.5%. For burnout, divided into 3 dimensions, 35.0% was high-levels of emotional exhaustion, 16.3% was high-level of work cynicism, and 8.8% was low-level of work efficiency. Thai and foreign teachers had statistically significant differences in work cynicism and work efficiency (p < .05). The results of the correlation study found that sickness presenteeism was associated with stress, emotional exhaustion, work cynicism, and work efficiency with statistical significance (p < .05). sickness presenteeism was high in teachers who emotional exhaustion, 48.6% (95%CI = 40.9 - 56.6). It is recommended that schools should create an online leave system or rapid notification if a teacher becomes sick in order to quickly allocate replacement teachers for classroom teachers, and should be an appropriate mental health promotion program.
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