This study describes the effects of a structured employee wellness program as related to stress management in an elementary school of thirty-eight staff members. The study was designed to measure the residual effects of the intervention program after subjects completed the sustained personal program of stress management with emphasis on relaxation techniques. The research design in which the wellness program tested was a behavioral modification study which used subjects as their own controls across two baseline stress assessments.

The instruments used to measure the perceived sources of stress, levels of stress, subjects knowledge of stress, and identified symptoms of stress were: 1)the General Well·Being Schedule; 2)How to Manage Stress Computer Program Tests; 3)State-Trait Anxiety Inventory and 4) Personal Exit Interviews. These assessment instruments, except for the interviews, were used before and after each intervention treatment.

In addition to the above measures, other criterion data included observations during the intervention program and after individual and group activities. These observations were done to show how school employees succeed in using stress management and relaxation techniques after exposure to the specific interventions.

Analysis was made using network comparisons across both assessment periods. The networking included the implementation of Stress Managing Techniques and How to Manage Stress Computer Program.