J Korean Acad Fam Med.  1998 Jul;19(7):559-570.

Degree of stress and stress-related factors by the Korean version of the BEPSI

Affiliations
  • 1Department of Family Medicine, Seoul National University Hospial, Korea.

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The BEPSI(Brief Encounter Psychosocial Instrument) was developed as an instrument for quick assessment of stress in a busy office setting, and well correlated with other stress scales. Bae et al. developed the BEPSI(Korean version)[BEPSI-K] in Korea, which was used broadly in health examination. In this study, we attempted to assess degree of stress and to find stress-related factors among Koreans by the BEPSI-K.
METHODS
A household telephone survey of 1,060 responders was carried out using multistage stratifed random sampling technique from April to May, 1997. The data were collected from 947 subjects who answered all the items of the BEPSI-K.
RESULTS
The reliability of the BEPSI-K was demonstrated (Cronbachs alpha 0.71). The BEPSI-K score showed left-shifted distribution, and its mean was 1.72. It also was significantly high in the unmarried, those with a low educational level, those with a low income, non-economic group, hypertensive patients, smokers, non-exercisers and drinkers. Among 947 subjects, 7.7 percent was high stress according to tercile of the original BEPSI score.
CONCLUSIONS
Stress-related factors were marital status, educational level, income level, occupation, exercise, smoking, drinking, and hypertension in Korea.

Keyword

degree of stress; stress-related factors; BEPSI(Korean version)[BEPSI-K]; BEPSI-K score

MeSH Terms

Drinking
Family Characteristics
Humans
Hypertension
Korea
Marital Status
Occupations
Single Person
Smoke
Smoking
Telephone
Weights and Measures
Smoke
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