The Oxygen Plan: A Revolutionary Stress Test for National Stress Awareness Month

The Oxygen Plan is a patent-pending program designed to help people recognize and reduce stress, live healthier, happier lives while helping employers lower health care costs and improve productivity with healthier, happier employees at an even better place to work. Co-Developed by Dr. Donald E. Williams, a licensed, board certified (ABPP) clinical health psychologist, the simple green, yellow, red color coding easily facilitates stress recognition and behavior change.

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It's a consumer-directed health care solution for the #1 modifiable health risk - stress

Minneapolis, MN (Vocus) April 14, 2010

Announcing The Oxygen Plan is a revolutionary, patent-pending stress management program designed to help people improve their health and relationships while assisting employers in reducing their skyrocketing health care costs.

Stress is what people experience when the demands placed upon them exceed their abilities to cope. Symptoms are what we experience when stress is serious, persistent or as it accumulates over time. Stress has negative impacts on individuals’ relationships at home and at work, and is a leading health risk factor linked to several leading causes of death including heart disease, cancer, lung disease, accidents and depression. Data suggest that 75-90% of all doctor visits are related directly or indirectly to stress, and that stress-related absenteeism and loss of productivity at work results in a cost of over $400Billion to US employers and the US economy. "It's a consumer-directed health care solution for the #1 modifiable health risk - stress," adds The Oxygen Plan founder Eric Lucas.

The Oxygen Plan Stress Test is a unique, 30 question online stress measurement tool; a simple and quick Stress Test, providing clear, instant results that you can see and understand, in the form of a Stress Color and a Stress NumberTM. Using The Oxygen Plan itself, individuals can go on to: (1) taking inventory or identifying stressors at work, at home and in social interactions; (2) categorizing, by color and number, the degree of stress involved; (3) setting life rules or implementing new positive behaviors to deal with stress and (4) repeating the rules as a life plan.

Over 20,000 people to date have completed The Oxygen Plan Stress Test. The clear trend - people are more stressed at home than work or socially.

According to Dr. Donald E. Williams, “our Stress Test data show what many suspect – there is a tremendous amount of stress in our society and in our relationships, taking a huge toll on our health, our relationships, and our economy. For individuals, the impact of stress at work takes a tremendous personal toll in terms of lost productivity, absenteeism and burnout. Our data also show that stress disrupts home and social lives, leading to even more problems for individuals in the form of deteriorating social support and troubled relationships. The Oxygen Plan is a solution for individuals – adults, adolescents and some children -- as well as for employers.”

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