Background
: It has been estimated that up to 80% of all illness in a physician's office is due to psychosocial stress. The BEPSI was developed as instrument of stress measurement in a busy practice and was well correlated with other stress scales. In Korea, Bae JM et al developed Korean-translated BEPSI, which was used broadiy in health examination. In this study, authors, attempted to measure reliabilty, validity and cut-off point of Modified-Korean BEPSI which was modified in two items
Methd: Data were collected from 201 subject over 20 years old who first visited outpatient clinic of Department of Family Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital.The validity was measu-red with correlation with Lee's 98 items which have proven valdity.
Resuls: The study subjects was 56% female and 44% male, 93% married, 53% with high school education or less, 62% employed. Test-retest reliability and Cronbachs alpha of the Modified BEPSI was 0.68, 0.80 respectively. The correlation coefficient of the Modified BEPSI was 0.23(P<0.01). The Modified BEPSI showed normal distribution and cut-off point according to quartile and 1 standard deviation was 2.2, 2.4 respectively.
Conclustions: The Modified BEPSI correlates with Lee's 98 items and has no difference with previous study(Bae JM et al, 1992) and can be substituted for previous BEPSI version.