Aims and context - Rahe et al
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- Aims & Context
- Stress response
- Change (good or bad) contribute to ill health
- Correlation between life stress, life changes, personal loss and subsquent illness
- Uses retrosopective data to collect evidence
- Holmes and Rahe
- Proposed a score of 150 + on the SRE scale increased stress related illness by 30%
- Proposed a score of 300 on SRE scale increased stress related illness by 50%
- Other pervious reserch
- Little previous reserch had been conducted out side of hospital settings.
- Pervious reserch mainly consisted of asking hospital paitents to report life changes in recent years
- Aims
- Is there a prospective positive correlation between life changes and future illness?
- Took place on Navy ships so all crew were exposed to the same conditions ie food and climate.
- Aimed to conduct prosepctive study correlating LCU scores over two years with illness
- Stress response
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