FAQs

The Northern Territory (NT) Teachers’ Occupational Health and Wellbeing Survey, independent of all employer groups, professional associations, and unions.

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When you complete the survey you will be able to review your job-related personal health and wellbeing with an individualised report returned automatically upon completion. Only you can access this password protected report.

Second, the research team from the Institute for Positive Psychology and Education at the Australian Catholic University will analyse the global results to build a holistic picture of the state of health and wellbeing for classroom teachers across the NT.

The deidentified results will be provided to the department in the form of a system-level report with recommendations for future actions. No teachers or schools will be identified in this report.

Recommendations from the report will then be used to support the development of the next Education NT Teacher Wellbeing Action Plan.

The survey is run by the Institute for Positive Psychology and Education, at the Australian Catholic University (ACU). Lead by Professor Herb Marsh from ACU and Emeritus Professor Philip Riley's expertise in the Principals Wellbeing survey also guides this research. The survey is conducted independently of all employers groups, professional associations and unions. It has full ethics approval and adheres to all University guidelines.

As part of research ethics it is required to provide all participants with a Participant Information Letter, which details the research, what data is being collected and how.

You can access this letter here (PIL).

The survey provides classroom teachers with an opportunity to inform the NT Department of Education about their day-to-day work, to shape the development of the next Education NT Teacher Wellbeing Action Plan.

It is also an opportunity for you to learn more about your wellbeing as you will receive an individual wellbeing report immediately after you complete the survey. If you completed the survey in 2019 your 2022 results will be compared with 2019 in your report.

Yes. There is no requirement made by the NT Department of Education or the Australian Catholic University for you to participate in the survey.

Yes, you will receive a confidential password protected individual wellbeing report that only you can access.

As soon as you submit your survey you are automatically directed to your confidential individual wellbeing report. The report provides you with and allows you to see how you are going compared to other educators and the general population.

Please note that when you complete the survey you will be asked to choose a unique password that will always allow you to login and access your report via https://www.healthandwellbing.org/login

The "confirmation of submission" email that you receive when you complete and submit the survey will contain the link to access the individual report as well as your username and password. Do save it!

The survey is completely confidential and adheres to research ethics / data privacy and security standards. Your data is not accessible to anyone but the primary researchers and is de-identified before any analysis.

The NT Department of Education will never receive information that could identify survey participants or the schools they are employed in.

Providing your phone number is optional and not required for you to complete the survey.
If you do provide your phone number, it may be used for two purposes:
1) as a secondary contact in the event that your email address changes and we can no longer contact you for any future surveys that may be conducted between the Institute for Positive Psychology and Education and the NT Department of Education;
or 2) in case that further contact is ethically required.

The name of your school is treated as confidential information and will not be shared in any way. No individual or school will ever be named in any reporting of results.

We are interested in the characteristics of your school such as enrolment numbers, staff numbers and the socioeconomic status of your school community. We ask you to provide the name of your school so that we can access publicly available information about your school. For example, data from the ACARA My School website. This information provides the research team with context information to identify if there are any links between school context and teacher wellbeing. This also helps us to provide the NT Department of Education with targeted recommendations for action.

No, you may register using any email address (E.g. work email, Gmail or Yahoo). Once registered, an email with your personalised survey entry link will then be sent to your nominated email address. This is your link to start the survey.

If this is the first time you have completed the NT Teachers' Occupational Health and Wellbeing Survey, it should take no longer than one hour to complete.

If you completed the 2019 survey and you're still at the same school in the same role, the 2022 survey should only take 30-40 minutes to complete.

Remember, your survey responses are saved each time you press the 'Next' button, so you can complete the survey in more than one sitting. Use your entry link to come back to complete the survey.

When you do the survey you press a \'Next\' button to get from page to page. Every time you press this button your responses are saved automatically. If you leave the survey before you finish and want to re-enter, use the entry link provided in the registration email sent to your nominated email account. Your link will return you to the last completed page.
You can go in and out as often as you like to complete the survey in small chunks, or you can do the whole thing in one sitting.

If you leave the survey before you finish and want to re-enter, use your personalised link provided in the registration email sent to your nominated email account. Your link will return you to the last completed page.

You can go in and out as often as you like to complete the survey in small chunks, or you can do the whole thing in one sitting.

The entry link you received in your registration email provides you with access back into the survey at the last page you completed and clicked "Next".

If this doesn\'t work, please email the Institute for Positive Psychology and Education - Health & Wellbeing Team at admin@healthandwellbeing.org and we will send you a new entry link.

Please email the Institute for Positive Psychology and Education - Health & Wellbeing Team at admin@healthandwellbeing.org and we will send you a new entry link.

If you change your mind about completing the survey, you can email the Institute for Positive Psychology and Education - Health & Wellbeing Team at admin@healthandwellbeing.org and request that your information be deleted. After you have submitted your survey, you can email at any time and request that your data be deleted.

We are using these questionnaires as they have been demonstrated to be reliable and valid tools. Using the Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire II (COPSOQ II) will allow us to look at your job stress and psychosocial health and compare it to a global dataset. Using the Assessment of Quality of Life (AQoL-8D) will allow us to compare your quality of life against Australian norms.

The Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire II (COPSOQ II) is an instrument that has been used globally to measure work stress in many occupations. You can read more about it here. https://www.copsoq-network.org

The Assessment of Quality of Life (AQoL-8D) is a health-related quality of life instrument developed by researchers at the Centre for Health Economics at Monash University. You can read more about it here. http://aqol.com.au/index.php/what-is-aqol

The survey captures information drawn from existing research instruments. The COPSOQ II explores occupational stress and psychosocial health with comparisons to a global dataset and AQoL-8D measures quality of life against Australian norms. If you are completing the survey for the first time ever you will need to complete a comprehensive Demographics section. If you completed the survey in 2019 and are at the same school, you will only need to confirm your demographic details so it will be quicker.

The Institute for Positive Psychology and Education, at the Australian Catholic University (ACU) publish articles in educational and policy journals, and write reports for industry bodies, organisations, employers, and policy makers.

Aggregated and non-identifiable results from this research may also be disseminated for report and/or publication, such as in an academic journal, book or conference proceeding. De-identified data may be provided to fellow researchers to conduct or compliment further research, following all appropriate privacy and ethical requirements. No other entities, in Australia or overseas, will be provided with, or have access to, your personal information. Results will be provided to the Department in the form of a system-level report.

Your individual report will be on-screen once you complete your survey. You will be able to login and see this report, pdf and print it at any point after completing the survey. This report is only available to you.

Your results can be accessed immediately through a secure, password protected portal at https://www.healthandwellbeing.org/nt once you have completed the survey.

All data is stored and encrypted on the Australian Catholic University (ACU) secure servers based in Australia. Survey data is protected using industry best standards.

Raw, identifiable data will only ever be accessed by the Institute for Positive Psychology and Education's Data Manager for deidentification purposes. Only once deidentification has occurred will the data be passed on to the primary researchers from the Institute for Positive Psychology and Education - Health and Wellbeing Team.

You can talk to the researchers about this survey by emailing admin@healthandwellbeing.org.

The Institute for Positive Psychology and Education - Health and Wellbeing Team would love to hear your feedback about this survey. Send any feedback to admin@healthandwellbeing.org

If you need wellbeing support you can reach out to any of the Support Services available on this websites support services page at https://www.healthandwellbeing.org/pages/support-services or contact the Institute for Positive Psychology and Education - Health and Wellbeing Team by emailing admin@healthandwellbeing.org