[Transition of differences between men and women about awareness of stress during the recent two decades: data from comparison of questionnaires at two different eras].

: Stress is one of the important factors on lifestyle diseases such as type 2 diabetes. Recent great changes of female roles in social activities and the introduction of Japanese public nursing care insurance in 2000 might lead to some changes in the household roles, which would have a big impact on the differences in stress between men and women. I herein investigated the two questionnaires about the awareness of stress in daily lives in 273 persons conducted in 1993 before the beginning of public nursing care insurance and in 590 persons in 2010 after the program was implemented. The understanding of the results and re-thinking of so-called 'traditional sexual roles' will provide helpful clues to the precise solution for coping with stress.