Referred symptomatology of mental disorders in university professors and the difficulties imposed by remote teaching during the covid-19 pandemic

Teaching in university education requires intellectual, professional and pedagogical skills, which added to the requirements related to changes in the education system in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, constituted an even more complex and challenging process for these professionals, raising a situation of extreme vulnerability to triggering and worsening mental disorders. The objective of this study was to characterize the groups evaluated in terms of sociodemographic and employment data and to determine the prevalence of referred mental disorders. We also sought to identify the association of mental disorders of stress, anxiety, depression and negative affectivity referred to by university professors and some of the difficulties inherent to teaching during the COVID-19 Pandemic with exclusive or partial remote work modality. Fore such, data collection was performed in a virtually using the following instruments: Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS-21 Brazilian version), and the Socio-demographic, Habits, Lifestyle and Work Aspects Questionnaire. There was a high prevalence of mental disorders in these teachers, but the type of work was not associated with the symptoms mentioned, as well as the difficulties and obstacles faced in the practice of teaching, in this pandemic period, was not associated with the fact that teachers are linked to exclusively or partially to remote teaching.