DOI: 10.36347/sajb.2015.v03i02.014

Pages: 197-201

Stress is one of the prime factor for most of the illness in human’s life. The aim of this study was to construct Discriminant Function with its Score from STRESS levels measured on 200 women of reproductive age group. A Cross-Sectional, Sample Household Survey was conducted in Sub-Urban Chennai over a period of 6 months. The data was collected on first hand by Personal Interview method in presence of the Community Physician and Psychiatrist. Statistically we observed a Prevalence of 69.5% women with Stress and was significantly high among the Age <30 years & those with BMI<25 and majority of the participants were housewife. Discriminant Function Score of 0.41 with a Canonical Correlation = 0.78; Wilk’s Lambda = 0.392 & χ2 =167.91(P=0.000) by ‘Enter method’ and DF Score of 0.35 with a Canonical Correlation = 0.73; Wilk’s Lambda = 0.465 & χ2 =145.07 (P=0.000) by ‘Step wise method’ indicates that the two discriminant functions does better than chance at separating women ‘with’ and ‘without’ Stress. More than 93.0 percent of Original group cases were correctly Classified in both methods. Hence 17 Life Changing Events responsible for STRESS from this study constructed a Discriminant Function Model. Further research was continued with a larger population.