Do health checks cause stress?

Data are reported concerning social responses to health checks in an occupa tional setting. Previous research has suggested that screening may be a str essful experience. This, in turn, has contributed to a degree of scepticism about the value of health checking. No evidence was found in the present s tudy to support the proposition that health checks cause such responses. it is shown that health checks prompt recipients to try to engage in health p romoting behavioural changes. The study was a randomized controlled trial o f 1,371 persons employed in a large engineering factory in the West of Scot land.