Tests like Trier social stress test are not so easy to implement in a population based study. Therefore, we started to look for a stress test which is short but good enough to evaluate the effects of acute stress in general population.
Will this be useful? http://www.psy.cmu.edu/~scohen/PSS.html
Or in this article, where they use Perceived Control
of Internal States scale (PCOISS) http://www.allenandunwin.com/spss2/spsssample.pdf The author may be able to help you.
The recently introduced Stress Overload Scale (SOS) may be used to detect short-term fluctuations in stress levels. Probably, you can try to use it.
Amirkhan, J. H. Stress Overload: A New Approach to the Assessment of Stress. American journal of community psychology 2012, 49(1-2), 55-71.
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