Survey of relationship between psychosocial working conditions and health complaints of secondary school teachers in Kaunas city

Aim of the study: To evaluate psychosocial working conditions and their relationship with health complaints of secondary school teachers in Kaunas city. Tasks of the research: To evaluate psychosocial working conditions of secondary school teachers in Kaunas city; To identify frequency of stress at work and health complaints of secondary school teachers in Kaunas city; To identify links between psychosocial working conditions and health complaints of secondary school teachers in Kaunas city. The object of research: Momentary study of secondary school teachers in Kaunas city. Screening and survey methods: Momentary study based on interview of anonymous questionnaire of subjects. 220 teachers were questioned randomly. Results: It has been statistically significantly established 1.5 to 4.3 times to be more likely to have various health complaints (heart disease, neck / shoulder pain, psychological distress, self-rated health, the health condition at this time, compared to the state of health a year ago) for treatment groups experiencing following psychosocial work risk factors: high demands, low decision control / freedom, low social support, high strain at work, frequent and random as well as varying duration of bullying. Conclusions: Part of reference population of teachers, evaluating their health on intermediate and bad level, increased exponentially, as respondents' age increased. Variaty of bullying duration did not have significant impact on the level of frequency of health complaints. Duration of bullying at work factor increases possibility of heart disease by 16 percent in the group of subjects having low decision freedom / control at work, because it is more difficult to evaluate the nature of bullying at work, in addition to heart diseases rarely are acute illnesses therefore the factor of bullying duration strongly influences the possibility of this disease