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The Wheatley Stress Profile (WSP) has been designed to quantify stress in nine areas: Social habits (drinking, smoking, etc.), Social relationships (at work, recreation, with a partner, close confidante, other people and personal appearance), Life events (either recent or in the past), Sexual (libido, relations with partner, physical and psychological problems, guilt, dyspareunia and fear of pregnancy for women), Psychiatric (Raskin‐Covi and Hamilton Rating Scales), Old age (isolation, failing senses and bodily functions, etc.), Menstrual (menstrual irregularities, PMS, menopause), and ‘Stress and the Heart’.
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