MU News Release Health problems come with the job for one of every four radio newspeople.
Stress causes most of the damage.
Women and minorities are hit more often than white men. Larger radio markets show higher rates of job-related ills. Stress and such related ills as ulcers, fatigue, anxiety, headaches, heart trouble and alcohol or drug abuse accounted for most of the problems. Many respondents named more than one of the problems in the stress-related clusters shown in Table 1. The sum shown in parentheses is of problems rather than of persons.