A Review on Mental Stress Detection Using PSS Method and EEG Signal Method

As the world facing COVID-19 crisis during 2020, more than 38.8 lakhs of human death as per the report from the World Health Organization (WHO) on June 2021. Because of this pandemic, worldwide people are restricted to travel, meeting, or gathering a group of people. Most of the people working from home and students’ education are carried out through the online system. The stress caused in a person may depends upon different factors, such as spending more time in online classes by watching the mobile phone, due to lack of interaction with others, insufficient money to survive, job insecurity, and other reasons. This kind of above reason may lead to a long-term stress that leads to suicidal thoughts in human. In order to reduce the suicide rate, it is important to analyze the level of stress in human beings. In this paperwork, a survey for stress measurement among human beings was carried out by two methods such as Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) and also by using the physiological signal as Electroencephalogram (EEG) discussed. The advantages and drawbacks of the PSS method and EEG signal method for the detection of stress measurement are discussed in this paper.