Holmes-Rahe scale

English

Etymology

Devised in 1967 by psychiatrists Thomas Holmes and Richard Rahe.

Proper noun

the Holmes-Rahe scale

  1. A list of various stressful life events that can contribute to illness, ranked by assessment of risk.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.