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The Validity of Daily Self-Assessed Perceived Stress Measured Using Smartphones in Healthy Individuals: Cohort Study
- Source :
- JMIR mHealth and uHealth, Vol 7, Iss 8, p e13418 (2019), JMIR mHealth and uHealth, Þórarinsdóttir, H, Faurholt-Jepsen, M, Ullum, H, Frost, M, Bardram, J E & Kessing, L V 2019, ' The Validity of Daily Self-Assessed Perceived Stress Measured Using Smartphones in Healthy Individuals: Cohort Study ', J M I R mHealth and uHealth, vol. 7, no. 8, e13418 . https://doi.org/10.2196/13418, Þórarinsdóttir, H, Faurholt-Jepsen, M, Ullum, H, Frost, M, Bardram, J E & Kessing, L V 2019, ' The Validity of Daily Self-Assessed Perceived Stress Measured Using Smartphones in Healthy Individuals : Cohort Study ', JMIR mHealth and uHealth, vol. 7, no. 8, e13418 . https://doi.org/10.2196/13418
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- JMIR Publications, 2019.
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Abstract
- Background Smartphones may offer a new and easy tool to assess stress, but the validity has never been investigated. Objective This study aimed to investigate (1) the validity of smartphone-based self-assessed stress compared with Cohen Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) and (2) whether smartphone-based self-assessed stress correlates with neuroticism (Eysenck Personality Questionnaire-Neuroticism, EPQ-N), psychosocial functioning (Functioning Assessment Short Test, FAST), and prior stressful life events (Kendler Questionnaire for Stressful Life Events, SLE). Methods A cohort of 40 healthy blood donors with no history of personal or first-generation family history of psychiatric illness and who used an Android smartphone were instructed to self-assess their stress level daily (on a scale from 0 to 2; beta values reflect this scale) for 4 months. At baseline, participants were assessed with the FAST rater-blinded and filled out the EPQ, the PSS, and the SLE. The PSS assessment was repeated after 4 months. Results In linear mixed-effect regression and linear regression models, there were statistically significant positive correlations between self-assessed stress and the PSS (beta=.0167; 95% CI 0.0070-0.0026; P=.001), the EPQ-N (beta=.0174; 95% CI 0.0023-0.0325; P=.02), and the FAST (beta=.0329; 95% CI 0.0036-0.0622; P=.03). No correlation was found between smartphone-based self-assessed stress and the SLE. Conclusions Daily smartphone-based self-assessed stress seems to be a valid measure of perceived stress. Our study contains a modest sample of 40 healthy participants and adds knowledge to a new but growing field of research. Smartphone-based self-assessed stress is a promising tool for measuring stress in real time in future studies of stress and stress-related behavior.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Self-Assessment
Psychometrics
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Perceived Stress Scale
Health Informatics
Information technology
Emotional stress
smartphone
Correlation
Cohort Studies
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Surveys and Questionnaires
Personality
Medicine
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Family history
Ecological momentary assessment
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Original Paper
emotional stress
mobile phone
healthy individuals
business.industry
ecological momentary assessment
Reproducibility of Results
Middle Aged
self-report
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Neuroticism
030227 psychiatry
Healthy individuals
Cohort
Female
Perception
Smartphone
Public aspects of medicine
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business
Psychosocial
Mobile phone
Self-report
Stress, Psychological
Clinical psychology
Cohort study
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 22915222
- Volume :
- 7
- Issue :
- 8
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- JMIR mHealth and uHealth
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....0fe07962d248b80967da7090200c2d3e