Identificación del estrés en docentes de educación básica y bachillerato en la parroquia Iñaquito al norte de la ciudad de Quito durante la pandemia de COVID-19 en el año 2021 - 2022

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Abstract: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic causing changes in the educational system, teachers had to reinvent their workspace towards an emerging virtuality, inducing negative effects on physical and mental health. The purpose of this research was to identify the factors related to teaching stress in a public educational unit in the Iñaquito parish north of the city of Quito, during the COVID-19 pandemic in the year 2021-2022. The methodological design was not experimental, exploratory, descriptive, quantitative and transversal, with a sample of 41 teachers. The instruments applied were Ad-Hoc Sociodemographic Questionnaire, Maslach Chronic Work Stress Inventory (MBI), Technostress Questionnaire (NTP), Mental Health Questionnaire (DASS-21) and Multidimensional Coping Styles Assessment Scale (COPE). )- 28). The results revealed that the teachers of basic and secondary education presented high levels of stress during the health emergency due to COVID-19; Such findings may contribute to primary prevention programs to provide coping strategies against the demands of stress and other mental health variables in the work context.