Current Scales and Questionnaires for Assessing Stress Conditions and Their Application in Medicine: a Review
INTRODUCTION. Stress can act as an etiological factor in about 80 % of diseases, its impact on health is multifaceted and the burden of stress continues to grow. Currently, every fifth adult in Russia experiences a high level of psychoemotional stress. Stressful conditions are characterized by a hig...
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| Language: | English |
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Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation. National Medical Research Center of Rehabilitation and Balneology
2025-01-01
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| Series: | Вестник восстановительной медицины |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.eco-vector.com/2078-1962/article/viewFile/678726/194038 |
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| Summary: | INTRODUCTION. Stress can act as an etiological factor in about 80 % of diseases, its impact on health is multifaceted and the burden of stress continues to grow. Currently, every fifth adult in Russia experiences a high level of psychoemotional stress. Stressful conditions are characterized by a high prevalence, which contributes to the high incidence of patients with vegeto-somatic symptoms of stress in non-psychiatric medical institutions, where the detection of these disorders is difficult. The search and development of optimal diagnostic methods for stress-related psychosomatic disorders remains a very important and urgent problem.
AIM. The current scales and questionnaires for stress diagnosis, to evaluate the features of their presentation of vegeto-somatic symptoms of stress and the possibility of their use to identify stressful conditions in medical institutions.
MATERIALS AND METHODS. The databases used were: PubMed, eLIBRARY.RU, Frontiers platform. The search was conducted by keywords in Russian and English: stress, stress diagnosis, psychological diagnosis of stress, stress psychometrics, somatoform disorders, stress tension. The search depth for publications is 10 years.
MAIN CONTENT OF THE REVIEW. The scales and questionnaires for assessing stress conditions, which are most often used in modern foreign and domestic research (including in medicine), are analyzed, taking into account the representation and specifics of the description of vegeto-somatic symptoms of stress in them.
CONCLUSION. Current stress diagnostic questionnaires were developed in the second half of the 20th century and have a blank form. In modern foreign studies, when choosing a method for diagnosing stress, priority is given to brevity: the fewer items in the questionnaire, the more often it is used; in domestic studies, the frequency of use of the questionnaire is additionally influenced by the period of its Russian-language adaptation. In the studied blank forms of questionnaires, somatic manifestations of stress are either not taken into account at all, or only individual symptoms are taken into account. |
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| ISSN: | 2078-1962 2713-2625 |