Objective To explore the mental health status of primary and secondary school teachers in Chongqing and to propose countermeasures for improving the mental health of primary and secondary school teachers.Methods A stratified random sampling method was used to select 462 primary and secondary school teachers in a district of Chongqing as the survey respondents

and a questionnaire survey was conducted on the respondents using Symptom Checklist-90（SCL-90）.Results The overall detection rate of psychological problems among the survey respondents was 66.7%.In terms of individual factors

the highest positive detection rate was found for the obsessive-compulsive factor（68.1 %）

and the positive detection rates for the remaining factors were

in descending order

somatization（62.5%）

depression（57.5%）

other（56.9 %）

hostility（53.5%）

anxiety（51.1 %）

interpersonal sensitivity（50.4 %）

paranoia（49.3 %）

psychoticism（45.9 %）

and terror（41.3 %）.The total mean SCL-90 score and the scores for somatization

obsessive-compulsive

interpersonal sensitivity

depression

anxiety

hostility

terror

paranoia

psychoticism

and other factors in the survey respondents were2.15±0.80

2.35±0.95

2.46±0.87

2.10±0.84

2.23±0.89

2.12±0.88

2.12±0.88

2.16±0.92

1.87±0.85

2.01±0.84

1.95±0.83

and 2.20±0.85.Logistic regression analysis showed that teaching experience and teaching period were the influencing factors for the mental health of the respondents.Conclusion The psychological problems of primary and secondary school teachers in Chongqing are rather prominent

schools and society need to pay attention to the psychological problems of primary and secondary school teachers

and it is appropriate to optimize the mental health literacy of primary and secondary school teachers so as to improve their mental health.