Alignment Between Heart Rate Variability From Fitness Trackers and Perceived Stress: Perspectives From a Large-Scale In Situ Longitudinal Study of Information Workers.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Stress can have adverse effects on health and well-being. Informed by laboratory findings that heart rate variability (HRV) decreases in response to an induced stress response, recent efforts to monitor perceived stress in the wild have focused on HRV measured using wearable devices. However, it is not clear that the well-established association between perceived stress and HRV replicates in naturalistic settings without explicit stress inductions and research-grade sensors.

Objective

This study aims to quantify the strength of the associations between HRV and perceived daily stress using wearable devices in real-world settings.

Methods

In the main study, 657 participants wore a fitness tracker and completed 14,695 ecological momentary assessments (EMAs) as

SUBMITTER: Martinez GJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9389384 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature