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  2. Holmes and Rahe stress scale - Wikipedia

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    The Holmes and Rahe stress scale (/ reɪ /) [1], also known as the Social Readjustment Rating Scale, is a list of 43 stressful life events that can contribute to illness. The test works via a point accumulation score which then gives an assessment of risk. The American Institute of Stress, for instance, regards a score of 300 or more as an "80% ...

  3. Clinical descriptions of ME/CFS - Wikipedia

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    The initial chronic fatigue syndrome definition was published in 1988. It is also called the "Holmes definition", after the manuscript's first author. [10] The Homes criteria require these two points: Debilitating fatigue of new onset which interferes with the patient's daily activities; Other fatiguing conditions must be eliminated

  4. Psychological stress - Wikipedia

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    Psychological stress. A man expressing stress. In psychology, stress is a feeling of emotional strain and pressure. [ 1 ] Stress is a type of psychological pain. Small amounts of stress may be beneficial, as it can improve athletic performance, motivation and reaction to the environment. Excessive amounts of stress, however, can increase the ...

  5. Talk:Holmes and Rahe stress scale - Wikipedia

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    The death of my 50 year old child is so bad it's off the scale. As a person who has suffered the death of a spouse and the death of two of my children, the death of my children is as painful, if not more painful, than the death of my spouse. I'm rather surprised death of a child is not on the list of life stressors.

  6. Stress management - Wikipedia

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    Subsequent studies of stress in humans by Richard Rahe and others established the view that stress is caused by distinct, measurable life stressors, and further, that these life stressors can be ranked by the median degree of stress they produce (leading to the Holmes and Rahe stress scale). It is important to note that the done by Holmes and ...

  7. Stress (biology) - Wikipedia

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    The Holmes and Rahe stress scale was developed as a method of assessing the risk of disease from life changes. [25] The scale lists both positive and negative changes that elicit stress. These include things such as a major holiday or marriage, or death of a spouse and firing from a job. [citation needed]

  8. Life Events and Difficulties Schedule - Wikipedia

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    The Life Events and Difficulties Schedule is a psychological measurement of the stressfulness of life events. It was created by psychologists George Brown and Tirril Harris in 1978. [1] Instead of accumulating the stressfulness of different events, as was done in the Social Readjustment Rating Scale by Thomas Holmes and Richard Rahe, they ...

  9. Cardiac stress test - Wikipedia

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    003878. [ edit on Wikidata] A cardiac stress test is a cardiological examination that evaluates the cardiovascular system's response to external stress within a controlled clinical setting. This stress response can be induced through physical exercise (usually a treadmill) or intravenous pharmacological stimulation of heart rate. [ 1 ]