Survey: Health Problems Found Most Stressful Event in American Lives

 
Nearly half of Americans have reported that their most stressful experiences in the past year have been related to health, according to a new NPR/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health poll.

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The poll includes responses from 2,505 adults, aged 18 and older.

Key findings from the report regarding stress related to health include:

•    More than half of the public — 49 percent — reported that they had a major stressful event or experience in the past year.
•    More than a third of those with a great deal of stress say the contributors include their own health problems and health problems of family members.
•    People in poor health are more than twice as likely than the public as a whole to report a great deal of stress in the past month.

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