A study on the relationship between stress-associated lifestyles disorders and essential preventive therapy among women entrepreneurs

Abstract

Stress is one of the critical factors nowadays affecting almost all people globally. Our study aims to find the association between stress among women entrepreneurs and their metabolic health issues caused by various hormonal imbalances. The study correlated with major female health issues such as polycystic ovarian syndrome, obesity, hyperprolactinemia, infertility, bone health, and trending lifestyle-changing interventions: diet, homeopathic, hormonal treatments, etc. A total of 60 women participants within the age group from 30 to 45 years were included in the study at Kolkata and surrounding areas considering participants’ hectic lifestyles, food and exercise habits, medicines, etc. The semi-structured online survey was done through email using the particular questionnaire based on biochemical test reports, seven-day diet and activities records, and medicine consumption cum hormonal intake irrespective of the participant. Pearson Chi-square test, Likelihood Ratio, Symmetric Measures applied for statistical analysis using SPSS-22. The results showed that the two types of stress were found in 30 participants in each category with asymptotic significance (2-sided) .392 and .403, respectively, while Chi-square significance is approximately .05. So, there is no statistical significance between the relationship of participants’ age, all types of concerning diseases, and practicing therapies. The study found that many participants were not following diet despite knowledge of health benefits. The study concluded that stress can be directly or indirectly related to metabolic syndrome but not always cause hormonal imbalances. However, the participants should go with a proper diet and exercise rather than practicing a fad diet or so-called crash diets.