The dynamical network approach of chronic stress.
- Conditions
- chronische stressoverstraintension
- Registration Number
- NL-OMON48573
- Lead Sponsor
- Academisch Medisch Centrum
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Withdrawn
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 40
For patients
1. Between 21 and 65 years of age.
2. Having an indication for rehabilitation at BeLife, center for
multidisciplinary rehabilitation and starting the treatment.
3. Referred by an occupational health physician or general practitioner with
symptoms of chronic stress (positive score for chronic stress) and associated
health complaints to a multidisciplinary rehabilitation program. These
associated health complaints include disorders which are stress related (burn
out, overstrain, anxiety disorder, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder
(PTSD, chronic as well as acute), chronic complaints of the musculoskeletal
system, metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular disease, serious hypertension,
chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), fibromyalgia, medically unexplained physical
symptoms (MUPS))
4. A positive score for chronic stress
5. Being at work
6. Being able to write and read.
7. Written informed consent., For healthy volunteers.
1. Between 21 and 65 years of age
2. A negative score for chronic stress.
3. Being able to write and read
4. Written informed consent
No exclusion criteria
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational invasive
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <p>Clinical Allostatic Load Index, a measure for chronic stress. Is chronic stress<br /><br>measurable in blood values?<br /><br>Blood pressure, measure of stress: is hypertenion measurable?<br /><br>Hair cortisol, a measure for the quantity of cortisol in the 5 months before<br /><br>the moment of sampling: was chronic stress measurable in terms of hair cortisol<br /><br>in the 5 months previous to the end of the study?<br /><br>Heart Rate en Heart Rate Variability, a measure for stress and rest<br /><br>(sympathetic en parasympathetic activity): Do these measures show any sign of<br /><br>chronic stress?<br /><br>Questionnaires to measure chronic stress.<br /><br>Questionnaires to measure chronic stress related disorders.<br /><br>Questionnaires work en private situation, to map the stress factors present in<br /><br>the work- en private situation.</p><br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <p>Not applicable.</p><br>