Stress related illness – mainly too little recovery, not too much stress!

A majority of the total sick leave in Sweden is due to illness in which stress has a significant impact. This project focuses on the importance of effective recovery after or between stress periods.

The knowledge of how stress-related problems should be prevented, treated and rehabilitated is unfortunately still lacking.

The overall hypothesis of this project is that deficiencies in the individual’s recovery capacity are essential for the development of various stress-related problems and therefore should be an important target in the efforts for the prevention or treatment / rehabilitation of stress-related problems. Elucidating these issues the project is expected to provide a basis for intervention methods that can be applied directly in terms of prevention measures in occupational and public health care services.

The project’s last study, a randomized controlled treatment evaluation, is now in its final data collection stage.