Physical and Recreational Intervention Strategy to Decrease Stress Symptoms in Teachers

Abstract

Stress is considered the disease of the century by many experts. It affects a lot of people as a result of their working activity. Teachers´ physical, emotional and mental health is especially affected by its side effects; likewise, their social relationships and their working performance. Consequently, decreasing stress side effects is a necessity from the different scenarios and through alternatives to implement physical and recreational activities. Taking into account the above, this work aims at determining the effectiveness of a physical and recreational intervention strategy to decrease stress symptoms in teachers from the teaching Unit Daniel Álvarez Burneo, from Loja, Ecuador. Theoretical methods like the analysis-synthesis, induction-deduction and systemic-structural-functional were applied; also, the empirical document review, observation, survey, and the experiment. The mathematical-statistical methods relative frequency and descriptive statistics were used. The effectiveness of the strategy as the main research result was determined through a partial application with positive results regarding the decrease of stress in teachers; evidenced in the feasibility of the pre-experiment applied.