title: The effectiveness and practicality of occupational stress management interventions: a survey of subject matter expert opinions.
abstract: Stress management (SM) subject matter experts (SMEs) evaluated 6 widely used occupational SM interventions (relaxation, physical fitness, cognitive restructuring, meditation, assertiveness training, and stress inoculation) on the basis of 10 practicality criteria and 7 effectiveness objectives. Relaxation was evaluated overall as the most practical intervention, while meditation and stress inoculation were judged as the least practical. Physical fitness was chosen to be the most effective intervention, while both meditation and assertiveness training were rated overall as the least effective. The findings also revealed that the SMEs considered history of success and duration of effect, rather than "relevance to program objectives," as the most important factors when selecting SM interventions. Incongruence between effectiveness ratings and actual choices of interventions are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bellarosa
authors.forename: P Y
authors.initials: PY
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D015928:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology; D009786:Occupational Health Services; D010809:Physical Fitness / Q000523:psychology; D012064:Relaxation Therapy; D012307:Risk Factors; D013001:Somatoform Disorders / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000150:complications* / Q000517:prevention & control; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D016526:Workload / Q000523:psychology*