title: [Systematic review of university teachers' mental health based on SCL-90].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To review the overall situation of university teachers' mental health in China systematically.
  
  
  METHODS
  The literatures using Symptom Check List 90 to study university teachers' mental health in the databases during 2004 - 2014 were searched. WMD was taken as the index of effect size, and meta-analysis was carried to study the difference of mental health between university teachers and norm of China, also within different genders and titles.
  
  
  RESULTS
  56 qualified literatures were included. The university teachers' total score, and the score of interpersonal sensitivity factor, anxiety factor, photic anxiety factor were higher than the norm of China, WMD were respectively 11.24, 0.21, 0.16 and 0.22. Male teachers' total score (-3.86), and the score of somatization (-0.07), depression (-0.06), anxiety (-0.07), photic anxiety (-0.06) were lower than female's. The score of primary title teachers interpersonal sensitivity (-0.09), photic anxiety (-0.10) were lower than intermediate title teachers'. The score of primary title teachers somatization (-0.19), obsessive-compulsive (-0.13), interpersonal sensitivity (-0.12), depression (- 0.12), anxiety (-0.10), paranoid ideation (-0.12), psychoticism (-0.09) were lower than senior vice title teachers'. The score of primary title teachers somatization(-0.23), depression (-0.16) were lower than senior title teachers'.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The mean level of university teachers' mental health was lower than the norm of China. The overall situation of university teachers' mental health in China was not optimistic. The society and school should take targeted measures to improve university teachers' mental health.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Statistics, West china school of public health, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China. chennan910@sina.com
authors.forename: Nan
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Xiaosong
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Qiaolan
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Yuanyuan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D001007:Anxiety / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D057189:Checklist; D002681:China; D003863:Depression / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D005178:Faculty; D005260:Female; D006266:Health Education; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders; D008603:Mental Health; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D014495:Universities