Teachers in colleges and universities are faced with such problems as heavy work pressure and the heavy task of ideological and political education. Psychological pressure has gradually become an important factor affecting their physical and mental health. Therefore, exploring effective ways to relieve teachers’ psychological pressure is very important to improve the effect of ideological and political education in colleges and universities.

100 college teachers were randomly divided into an experimental group and a control group. The experimental group received the optimal intervention of the innovation system of ideological and political education in colleges and universities, while the control group maintained the traditional mode of ideological and political education. The mental health information of the two groups of teachers was collected before and after the intervention by using a self-rating psychological stress scale and other measuring tools. The collected information was statistically analyzed by using SPSS23.0 software.

After optimizing the innovation system of ideological and political education in colleges and universities, the mental health level of teachers in the experimental group was significantly improved (P<0.001). Compared with the control group, the experimental group showed significant advantages in terms of psychological stress and mental health.

The optimization of the innovative system of ideological and political education in colleges and universities has a positive effect on relieving the psychological pressure of teachers. Through training, psychological counseling, optimizing the working environment and other measures, teachers’ psychological pressure can be effectively reduced and their mental health level can be improved.

The research project of graduate education and teaching reform of Xijing University (No. 2022-YJG-10).