01490nas a2200217   4500000000100000008004100001260007600042653001100118653001100129653002100140653001300161100002800174700001300202700001600215245005400231300001200285490000600297520094100303022001401244020001401258       1994                            d  c01/1994bSociedad Española para el Estudio de la Ansiedad y el Estrés10aStress10aHealth10aHealth Practices10aTeachers1 aJordi Fernández-Castro1 aE. Doval1 aSílvia Edo00aTeachers  stress, health and behavior in teachers  a127-1330 v03 aThe aim of the present work was to study whether chronic teaching stress affects health practices in teachers. Indices of burnout, health practices and other health-related behaviours have been measured by means of questionnaires completed by 1364 primary school teachers of 115 educational centers. The results indicated that the higher the levels of burnout, the worse the health practices. The intensity of this relationship depends on the type of health practice assessed (physical exercise, eating behaviour, hardiness, and self-care practices). Moreover, those teachers showing a lower rate of health practices report a worse health status. It is concluded that, during stressful periods the time devoted to sleep, rest, relax, etc, is reduced. This is probably due to the fact that, under those situations, the importance attributed to health care is relegated to a second term by the need of coping with more immediate problems.  a1134-7937  a2174-0437