In schools, the staff necessarily have the common task of having to understand and resolve children’s health problems. However, the difficulties of understanding such a common task have been pointed out. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to make clear the differences in anxiety about children’s health among position in the school and length of teacher's career. The subjects were 1,636 teachers who were managerial positions, teachers, and yogo teachers in Tokyo’s S city. The investigation was carried out in March, 2015. In this study, anxieties about children’s health among subjects were collected by a questionnaire that consisted of 35 problem phenomena.
The results are summarized as follows; 1) “allergy,” “unable to sit still in class,” and “hard to sit up straight” were common anxieties among those in managerial positions, teachers, and yogo teachers; 2) anxieties about children’s health among teachers were significantly fewer for those in managerial positions and yogo teachers; 3) anxieties about children's health among teachers who had more than 20 years of teaching experience were significantly greater than for those who had fewer than 10 years of teaching experience. On the other hand, there was no such difference among yogo teachers.
The above results show that the different anxieties about children's health vary by position in the school and length of teacher's career.
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