Use of Wearable Devices to Assess the Impact of Stress in Workers' Life Quality

Summary

Introduction: Work stress has become more and more important in the last years as it affects both health and productivity of workers. In the last years, different wearables devices have started to be used to monitor stress at work to understand their consequences on daily life activity and sleep quality.

Objective: to establish whether wearable wristbands are devices capable of determining the work stress level of workers from a research center in Galicia, for which different variables related to the work stress level and quality of life of these workers will be evaluated.

Methods and analysis: The only inclusion criterion is to be a worker from a research center from Galicia. As for exclusion criteria, will not be allowed to participate those workers who are close to retirement ( \<5 years), have health issues that hinder participation in the study, or present skin hypersensitivity or allergic reactions due to the materials the wristbands are made.

This is a pilot study to determine the viability, sample size, cost, and duration of the study. This is an observational, analytic, and longitudinal study. In other words, in this study different variables from the population of interest will be observed and recorded without any direct intervention, so as to establish causality associations between these variables. It is considered as longitudinal since a six-months tracking of the variables will be performed.

As for the statistical analysis, different tests will be performed to analyse the distribution, correlation, and association of the different features, as well as the significant differences between them at different points of the study (detailed below).

Conditions

• Stress Disorder
• Burnout, Professional
• Sleep Disorder
• Quality of Life
• Anxiety State

Interventions

DEVICE

Xiaomi MiBand3

Recording of sleep, activity and heart rate data to study their association with stress.

OTHER

Socio-demographic questionnaire

Self-made questionnaire to be filled by the participants at the beginning of the study with the following personal data: age, gender, marital status, residential environment, cohabitation unit, educational level, socio-economic level, contract, working hours, overtime or not, number of overtime hours in a day, overtime frequency and perceived stress level

OTHER

EuroQol-5D-5L

Quality of life questionnaire to be filled by the participants at the beginning, mid-term and completion of the study with the following information: severity index, social value index for each health condition. Subjective evaluation of health status from 0 to 100.

OTHER

Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI)

Questionnaire to be filled by the participants whose outcome is the perceived quality, quantity and efficient of sleep. To be given at the beginning, mid-term, and completion of the study.

OTHER

State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI)

Questionnaire to be filled by the participants which measures the anxiety level. To be given at the beginning, mid-term and completion of the study.

OTHER

Perceived Stress Scale-10 (PSS-10)

Questionnaire to be filled by the participants which measures the stress level. To be given at the beginning, mid-term and completion of the study.

OTHER

Stress questionnaire

Questionnaire designed by a work stress psychologist professional from the research group which is focused on stress and daily functioning. This questionnaire was given for the participants to fill. It is composed by 3 daily items and 4 weekly items.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Center on Information and Communication Technologies

  collaborator OTHER

• Universidade do Porto

  collaborator OTHER

• Universidade da Coruña

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Javier Pereira, PhD · Universidade da Coruña

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2019-07-01

Primary Completion

2020-07-01

Completion

2020-07-01

Countries

• Spain

Study Locations