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Measures included resource availability, self-efficacy, interpersonal conflicts, work overload, burnout, depressive symptoms, and salivary cortisol, assessed as total morning cortisol output using the area under the curve with respect to ground (AUCg), at baseline (T1), post-intervention (T2), and four-month follow-up (T3). The clearest pattern of statistically significant within-group changes was observed among trained teachers with high baseline stress-related health problems (TG-HHP; n = 13). From T1 to T2, this subgroup showed increased resource availability and self-efficacy and reductions in burnout (1.63 to 1.33; p = 0.013, d = 0.81), depressive symptoms (46.92 to 42.40; p = 0.032, d = 0.67), and morning cortisol AUCg (410.01 to 306.50; p = 0.018, d = 0.78). At T3, statistically significant changes relative to baseline were observed across all study variables. 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