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Experience of Stress Assessed by Text Messages and Its Association with Objective Workload—A Longitudinal Study

Exploring stress trajectories in detail and over a long time may give valuable information in terms of both understanding and practice. We followed a group of primary health care employees in a randomized controlled trial. The objective was to describe their experience of stress, explore the intra-i...

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Autores principales: Arapovic-Johansson, Bozana, Wåhlin, Charlotte, Hagberg, Jan, Kwak, Lydia, Axén, Iben, Björklund, Christina, Jensen, Irene
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7037329/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31973041
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17030680
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author Arapovic-Johansson, Bozana
Wåhlin, Charlotte
Hagberg, Jan
Kwak, Lydia
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Jensen, Irene
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description Exploring stress trajectories in detail and over a long time may give valuable information in terms of both understanding and practice. We followed a group of primary health care employees in a randomized controlled trial. The objective was to describe their experience of stress, explore the intra-individual variability and examine the association between the experience of stress and the objective workload. Weekly text messages with a single item stress question were distributed in two time series: 12 weeks at the beginning of the trial and 26 weeks after the 6-month follow up. Aggregated objective data about workload were collected from their administration office and related to stress levels. There was a seasonal variation, with higher stress during the fall than in spring and summer. The analysis comparing high and low stress subgroups showed that the stress trajectory of a high-stress subgroup was different from that of a low-stress subgroup. Individuals with high exhaustion scores had higher odds of belonging to a subgroup of individuals with high intra-individual variability in stress experience. The objective workload was measured in two ways and was strongly associated with the stress experience. We found that the lower the productivity, the higher the feeling of stress.
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spelling pubmed-70373292020-03-11 Experience of Stress Assessed by Text Messages and Its Association with Objective Workload—A Longitudinal Study Arapovic-Johansson, Bozana Wåhlin, Charlotte Hagberg, Jan Kwak, Lydia Axén, Iben Björklund, Christina Jensen, Irene Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Exploring stress trajectories in detail and over a long time may give valuable information in terms of both understanding and practice. We followed a group of primary health care employees in a randomized controlled trial. The objective was to describe their experience of stress, explore the intra-individual variability and examine the association between the experience of stress and the objective workload. Weekly text messages with a single item stress question were distributed in two time series: 12 weeks at the beginning of the trial and 26 weeks after the 6-month follow up. Aggregated objective data about workload were collected from their administration office and related to stress levels. There was a seasonal variation, with higher stress during the fall than in spring and summer. The analysis comparing high and low stress subgroups showed that the stress trajectory of a high-stress subgroup was different from that of a low-stress subgroup. Individuals with high exhaustion scores had higher odds of belonging to a subgroup of individuals with high intra-individual variability in stress experience. The objective workload was measured in two ways and was strongly associated with the stress experience. We found that the lower the productivity, the higher the feeling of stress. MDPI 2020-01-21 2020-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7037329/ /pubmed/31973041 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17030680 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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