Bendrojo lavinimo mokyklų mokytojų sveikatos žinių poreikis ; General education schools teachers in need of health knowledge

Objective: To assess the general education schools teachers in need of health knowledge. Goals: 1) to assess the quality of teachers‘s health knowledge; 2) to assess teachers‘s lifestyle; 3) to assess the health knowledge level of teacher preparation in the high school and improvement opportunities. Methods: Were interviewed 330 teachers from 11 from Vilnius, Panevėžys, Ukmergė, Pakruojis city and district general education schools. In order to reach the investigation goal and accomplish its tasks, a cross-sectional epidemiological research was carried out. The research was performed using anonymous questionnaire survey. The questionnaire was made and corrected following the exploratory investigation. Statistical package Epi Data was used to compose data and statistical data analysis was performed using statistical package SPSS for Windows 12.0 and WinPepi 1.55 program (applying traditional statistical methods). Lifestyle‘s and with health knowledge related factors prevalence of teachers is expressed using percents, confidence interval (CI) 95%. The statistical assessment and analysis were performed with the χ square method and Fisher‘s exact test are used for categorical data analysis. Statistical significance level α=0,05 was used, p<0,05 – the difference is statistically significant. Results: The results of the study showed that teachers assess their health as "good" and "average." The majority of women (49.5 percent) assess their health as "average" and majority of men (53.8 percent) - as "good", but this difference is not statistically significant, p>0,05. Lifestyle factors‘s prevalence is different among groups of gender. More men (30.8 percent) are smoking than women (10.3 per cent.) and this difference is statistically significant, p <0.05. More men (62.2 percent.) are sporting than women (44.3 percent), p <0.05. More women (41.6 percent) are keeping the healthy eating than men (30.8 percent), but the difference is not statistically significant, p> 0.05. Personal hygiene is equally ...