Stress Test - risk calculator of life stress 4+

Name: Stress Test - risk calculator of life stress
Rating: 1 (1 reviews)
Author: Pears Health Cyber

Pears Health Cyber

Designed for iPhone

- 1.0 • 1 Rating

- Free

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Description

In 1967, psychiatrists Thomas Holmes and Richard Rahe examined the medical records of over 5,000 medical patients as a way to determine whether stressful events might cause illnesses. Patients were asked to tally a list of 43 life events based on a relative score. A positive correlation of 0.118 was found between their life events and their illnesses.

Their results were published as the “Social Readjustment Rating Scale” (SRRS), known more commonly as the Holmes and Rahe Stress Scale. Subsequent validation has supported the links between stress and illness.
[Credit Wikipedia - Holmes and Rahe stress scale]

The test is adapted from: "The Social Readjustment Rating Scale", Thomas H. Holmes and Richard H. Rahe, Journal of Psychosomatic Research, Volume 11, Issue 2, August 1967, Pages 213-218.

The Stress Test application offers the following:
● Stress vs illness risk test
● Option to send test results via e-mail
● Next test date reminder
● Tips and tricks to reduce the risk of the illness
● Sharing option

6 Apr 2017

Version 1.6

This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.

Performance improvements, iOS 10.2.1 optimisation.

1.0 out of 5

1 Rating

Terribly restrictive questionnaire

Considering the variation of historical and present life circumstances, traumas and tragedies, upsets and difficulties, this app limits the input to very restrictive answers to preset questions. There is no open ended questions or options, nothing like “on a scale of 1 to 10 how difficult is it to cope financially?” or “do you spend most of your time alone (lonely) or in company you enjoy?” or “do you have a history of personal trauma?”

I’m sorry but this app does not assess how stressed a person is likely to be. On most assessments I score a frighteningly high level but with this I scored 2 and shouldn’t be feeling the teeniest bit stressed.

I wish!!