
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, February 8, 1991                   TAG: 9102080561
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV2   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
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DATELINE: BLACKSBURG                                LENGTH: Short

VALLEY FAMILIES INCLUDED IN STRESS SURVEY

Sixty Montgomery County households will be included a federally sponsored survey on stress-related illnesses, a representative of the University of Michigan Survey Research Center said.

The interviews will be conducted this month by local representatives of the survey research center. It will be part of the largest study yet conducted of the relationship between health and stress, said study Director Patricia Veerkamp of the University of Michigan.

Congress authorized the National Survey of Health and Stress in 1988. Results will be used by government agencies to decide on health service funding over the next decade, Veerkamp said.

"We'll be talking to 25,000 people in the United States and Canada," she said. The World Health Organization is sponsoring comparable studies in other nations.

Surveyors will ask questions about physical and emotional health, chronic stress and available health services.

Households selected for the survey should receive letters by the end of this week. All survey responses are confidential.

Preliminary findings will be published by the end of the year, but final results will not be available for at least 18 months.

by CNB