State of the art: mental health of teachers in Colombia

Abstract

The objective of the research is to identify the state of the art through a literature review on mental health in teachers in Colombia.  The methodology used is the search for information on platforms such as google academic where articles, Scielo, research, theses, degree projects and news that arose on the occasion of the pandemic and that affected the mental health of teachers in Colombia are published; as well as a brief review of the legal framework on the mental health of teachers in Colombia will also be made.  The construction of this article on the mental health of teachers in Colombia is descriptive, its search and the collection of databases, bibliographic references, articles allowed achieving the research objectives, the realization of the RAE matrix and the research article. Conclusions: mental health in teachers in Colombia has been deteriorated by labor, psychosocial, affective and emotional factors, which are reported in the studies carried out from 2014 to 2023, since 2020 mental health diseases have been more marked, due to the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, where a high percentage of incapacities and diseases generated by stress, depression, depersonalization and emotional factors are reported.

DOI: 10.56238/sevenIIImulti2023-012