Research Areas
Real-time stress data from 12,000+ Indians. City-by-city breakdown, demographic patterns, seasonal shifts, and trend analysis.
Explore the Index โThe clinical methodology behind the 7-question assessment โ body system weighting, pattern type classification, and disease risk correlation.
Read the methodology โThe clinicians, researchers, and Ayurvedic practitioners whose expertise validates the Stress Fingerprintโข framework.
Meet the panel โThe 30+ peer-reviewed papers behind our methodology โ annotated, accessible, and connected to specific Fingerprint components.
Browse the library โMethodology Overview
The Stress Fingerprintโข isn't a mood quiz. It's a validated instrument that maps physiological stress load across six body systems using a weighted scoring model developed with clinical researchers.
Every question targets a specific physiological marker. Every body system score feeds a pattern classification model. Every pattern type has a documented disease correlation profile.
Each question carries system-specific weight based on clinical relevance to that body system's stress response.
Responses are mapped to cardiovascular, cognitive, sleep, digestive, immune, and hormonal axes โ simultaneously.
The dominant system combination โ and the ratio between them โ classifies your stress into one of 8 Pattern Typesโข.
Each Pattern Type maps to established physiological research on stress-disease pathways โ specific to Indian demographics.
The dominant body system and pattern type together generate a recovery recommendation grounded in clinical and Ayurvedic research.
The Evidence Base
The science points to body systems. Your assessment maps exactly which system is carrying your stress right now.