Note:
Educatel Brazil was a cross-sectional study conducted by telephone interview with the aim of
producing information on health and absenteeism in Brazilian schoolteachers. The following
information is available on the WebSIG: Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) of municipalities
(layer 1) location of schools (layer 2), federative units (FU) (layer 3), absence rates due
to vocal (layer 4) and psychological symptoms (layer 5)
The study included 4,979 teachers representing those who worked in the classroom in Brazilian
metropolitan schools in the fourth quarter of 2015 and the first quarter of 2016. The absence
rates due to vocal and psychological symptoms for each FU were adjusted for the variables sex
(male, female) and age (years) of teachers, SVI and working conditions.
The following working conditions were analyzed: work journey longer than hours 40 hours
(no, yes), Working time (<10, 10-20, >20 years), School administration (private, municipal,
state, federal), income at school in minimum wages (>three, until three), working in more
than one school (no, yes), working in another ativivity (no, yes); perception of intense
noise at school (no, yes), student indiscipline (no, yes), communting home-work to and from
(10-20, 21-50, >50 minutes), experience verbal violence in school (no, yes) and physical
violence in school (no, yes), school size by number of teachers (≤10, 11-20, 21-30, >30);
high demand at work (no, yes), rare opportunity to learn new things (no, yes), insufficient
time to complete tasks (no, yes), restriction of autonomy (no, yes) and low social support
(no, yes).
Adriane Mesquita de Medeiros1,6, Mariana Lobo2, Marcel de Toledo Vieira3, Lia Duarte4,5, João
Paulo Monteiro Carvalho5, Ana Cláudia Teodoro4,5, Rafael Moreira Claro5, Nayara Ribeiro Gomes1,
Alberto Freitas2
1 Postgraduate Program in Speech-Language Sciences, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo
Horizonte 30130-100, Brazil ; 2 CINTESIS@RISE, MEDCIDS, Faculty of Medicine of the University
of Porto, Porto, Portugal ; 3 Department of Statistics and Graduate Program in Economics Federal
University of Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, 36036-900, Brazil ; 4 Earth Sciences Institute (ICT),
Porto Pole, University of Porto, 4179-007 Porto, Portugal;5 Department of Geosciences, Environment and Spatial Planning, Faculty of Sciences
University of Porto FCUP, Rua do Campo Alegre, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal 6 Postgraduate Program in Public Health,
Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte 30130-100, Brazil
Correspondence: adrianemmedeiros@hotmail.com
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