BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT BEFORE AND AFTER A SCHOOL YEAR IN PUBLIC EDUCATION TEACHERS IN FORTALEZA

Abstract

The general objective of the study was to investigate the prevalence or not of systemic arterial hypertension in teachers of the municipal network of Fortaleza and as specific objectives: a) To discover the risk factors of blood pressure, its classification and its modes of treatment; b) Identify how teaching in public education is given and the factors that trigger stress in work activity; c) Compare blood pressure levels before and after each class period and the probable factors responsible for their change. The hypotheses that will be taken into account in this study will be two: The null hypothesis that will be that the work activity does not significantly change the blood pressure of the teachers of the municipal network of Fortaleza; while the alternative hypothesis will be that which confirms that the work activity significantly changes the blood pressure of the teachers of the municipal network of Fortaleza. The justification for this study is the scarcity of data in the scientific literature about how the blood pressure of public primary school teachers behaves after a class period. The problem that arises is that arterial hypertension is among the pathologies that most affects the professionals of education and is one of the responsible for the development of the stress in them. This research will be of the quantitative type, with a hypothetical deductive model, and will be collected data of 40 teachers through the use of a calibrated stethoscope and sphygmomanometer and a semi structured questionnaire so that possible associations with risk factors of the development of blood pressure elevation are detected using the ANOVA and Chi-square test for the statistical analysis of the data through the PRISMA 6 statistical program, being used in this research p <0.05. The results obtained were that there was a statistically significant difference between the arterial pressures before and after a class period, with p <0.0001 which indicated that the teaching profession of elementary school in municipal schools may be associated with development hypertension. In the semi-structured questionnaire the answers of some questions were correlated and their results were that not all associations were statistically significant for the development of pressure elevation. In addition, we have that stress can be a triggering factor of the pathology being triggered by pupil indiscipline, lack of student interest and others.