A Multi-Stage Early Stress Detection Model with Time Delay Subject to a Person’s Stress

Abstract

Stress is the body’s response to something that requires action or attention. In general, anything that poses a real challenge or threat to a person’s well-being can cause stress. Stress can slow down a person’s well-being activities. Often, you might not know whether you are stressed, if you are under too much stress, or when it is time to seek help. This paper presents a mathematical model with time delay subject to a person’s stress for early stress detection to assess whether a person is stress-free, has stress but is undetected, or has stress in any specific state such as minor, moderate, or severe stress. Being more alert to the effects of stress and reducing the uncertainty of undetected stress, or better, preventing it, may help people, especially teens, manage it more effectively and cope better, even a person happens to be stressed. The model can be extended to study the effects of multiple stress factors in light of the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic on people’s mental stress.