Medidas educativas frente a la pandemia y estrés docente en una escuela ecuatoriana

Abstract

Stress is a problem that affects a large part of the world's population and affects the different activities of individuals.  This can be caused by various factors, such as job insecurity, political tensions, health crises, just to name a few examples.  In this framework, this article analyzes the effects of stress due to the measures implemented in the teaching process, as a result of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, in the teachers of an educational unit of a particular regime of the Santa Ana canton (Manabí province, Ecuador). The population studied were 18 teachers who work in said school, to whom the Perceived Stress Scale (EEP) was applied to measure their stress levels, as well as a Likert-type questionnaire to identify the educational measures and strategies applied to the health crisis. Likewise, through unstructured interviews, it was sought to establish how these measures affected the manifestations of stress in the teachers evaluated.  Based on the results of this research, adaptive coping strategies are proposed for situations that generate stress, so that teachers have these tools to face stressful situations that affect them both in the psychological, emotional and cognitive fields.

Keywords: Stress, Teachers, Teaching, SARS-CoV-2.