Assessing Stress Level Scores Against Wearables-Driven Physiological Measurements.

ABSTRACT: Daily stressors elicit physiological and mental responses impacting health, cognition, and behaviour. Accurately assessing psychological stress responses in natural settings remains challenging despite extensive research, though wrist-worn devices have the potential to address this gap through remote data collection. The Garmin fitness tracker provides a stress score largely based on HRV which must be validated prior to use in research. This study aimed to (1) predict psychological self-reported stress from physiological measurements and Garmin calculated stress score, and (2) assess the stress score given by the Garmin Vivosmart 4 against HR and HRV from ECG recordings derived by the Polar H10 chest strap. A pilot study of 29 participants was conducted, followed by power calculations and

SUBMITTER: Rosenbach H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12647429 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature