Lauro Antonio Porto

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the labor conditions of private school teachers in Vitoria da Conquista, Bahia State, Brazil, collecting information on 250 teachers from the ten largest schools in the municipality through a self-applied questionnaire.

TL;DR: In this paper, a cross-sectional study with all the teachers in the municipal school system in Vitoria da Conquista, Bahia State, Brazil, investigated the association between work content (psychological demand and control over work) and the occurrence of minor psychiatric disorders among teachers.

TL;DR: Logistic regression techniques showed that hoarseness was statistically associated with > 24 classroom hours per week, work in more than one school, and having to make an effort to speak, and vocal cord nodules were associated with working > 5 years as a teacher.

TL;DR: Evidence suggests that the prevalence of mental disorders was high among teachers of the municipality and was associated with work-related demands and control issues, after controlling for confounding variables such as sex, geographic region and social support.

TL;DR: For instance, a prevalencia de diagnostico medico referido de patologias das pregas vocais in professores in Salvador was reported to be 18.9% as discussed by the authors.