Subjective Quality of Life and Psychiatric Morbidity among School Teachers in Abeokuta,South-West Nigeria

Abstract

Aims: To measure subjective Quality of Life and its relationship to psychiatric morbidity and sociodemographic variables in secondary school teachers in Abeokuta, Ogun state, Nigeria. Study Design: Cross-sectional. Place and Duration of Study: 10 selected public secondary schools in Abeokuta between November 2014 and March 2015. Methodology: The study was carried out among 341 school teachers in two stages. The 1st stage involved the administration of the World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL-BREF) and the 12-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12), to all teachers to measure their subjective Quality of Life and to screen for a probable psychiatric disorder. In the second stage, subjects who were GHQ-positive and a proportion of those who were GHQ-negative were assessed using the Original Research Article

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