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− | Measuring the '''impact of work-related stress''' is a post-hoc self-research project that uses retrospective data to evaluate whether typically stress-associated physiological variables show any deviation from a baseline after the experience of intense job-related stress | + | Measuring the '''impact of work-related stress''' is a post-hoc self-research project that uses retrospective data to evaluate whether typically stress-associated physiological variables show any deviation from a baseline after the experience of intense job-related stress. |
{{Project Infobox|Self researchers=User:Gedankenstuecke|Related tools=Fitbit, Oura Ring|Related topics=Stress, HRV, Sleep, Weight, Activity tracking}} | {{Project Infobox|Self researchers=User:Gedankenstuecke|Related tools=Fitbit, Oura Ring|Related topics=Stress, HRV, Sleep, Weight, Activity tracking}} | ||
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With the stress of the job application period over and having a clear exit strategy to leave my current environment, I was wondering whether any of physiological data from wearables etc. would show signs of this prior stress through deviations from a baseline. This approach would be similar to other projects I have done in the past, e.g. regarding the impact my PhD writing period had on me<ref>Writing up a PhD: Some numbers https://tzovar.as/writing-up-a-phd/</ref><ref>A PhD writing survival guide https://tzovar.as/phd-survival-guide/</ref> or the impact of COVID-19 lockdowns<ref>The effects the COVID-19 lockdown had on me https://tzovar.as/lockdown-effects/</ref>. | With the stress of the job application period over and having a clear exit strategy to leave my current environment, I was wondering whether any of physiological data from wearables etc. would show signs of this prior stress through deviations from a baseline. This approach would be similar to other projects I have done in the past, e.g. regarding the impact my PhD writing period had on me<ref>Writing up a PhD: Some numbers https://tzovar.as/writing-up-a-phd/</ref><ref>A PhD writing survival guide https://tzovar.as/phd-survival-guide/</ref> or the impact of COVID-19 lockdowns<ref>The effects the COVID-19 lockdown had on me https://tzovar.as/lockdown-effects/</ref>. | ||
− | My two | + | My main two questions were: |
* Do typically stress-related physiological variables show any changes compared to the baseline during this stress-period? | * Do typically stress-related physiological variables show any changes compared to the baseline during this stress-period? | ||
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=== Methods === | === Methods === | ||
− | For all four metrics, I used my existing data exports from Oura and Fitbit to [[Open Humans]], filtering for data that fell within the time period of interest. I marked down the start of the overall stress period as starting on September 13, 2021 as this corresponds to the end of the general summer vacation period in France and my own end-of-summer vacation | + | For all four metrics, I used my existing data exports from Oura and Fitbit to [[Open Humans]], filtering for data that fell within the time period of interest. I marked down the start of the overall stress period as starting on September 13, 2021 as this corresponds to the end of the general summer vacation period in France and my own end-of-summer vacation. For the "end of stress" date, I marked down April 8, 2022 as the date where I got my job offer for leaving. To create a pre- and post-stress baseline view, I additionally exported the 10 weeks of data prior to the stress-onset as well as all remaining data until May 31, 2022 to evaluate the evolution after the stress period. The raw data consists of a single data point per day for each of the variables and I calculated weekly averages to remove some of the noise due to differences in weekdays/weekends etc. |
− | + | Each of the weekly averages was then plotted on a [[timeline]], alongside an annotation for the time periods to evaluate any changes/trends compared to the baselines. The code to reproduce these visualizations using your own data is available as a Jupyter notebook. | |
== Results == | == Results == | ||
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Only towards the end of this period I had some anecdotal experience that made me suspect that things might be different: Towards the end of the stress-period I developed a persistent back/shoulder pain, which – while not fully disappearing – strongly subsided when getting the news that I would '''not''' be offered a job at my current workplace, thus making my exit plan to a different institution would happen (blue solid line). Which made me suspect that there might be a strong sense of relief in this outcome, even if I had thought I would have preferred another outcome. As such it is quite interesting for me to see that the retrospective analysis of my data actually ''shows'' that many of those values already went back to the baseline once I had the option to move, despite still nominally being within the job application stress! | Only towards the end of this period I had some anecdotal experience that made me suspect that things might be different: Towards the end of the stress-period I developed a persistent back/shoulder pain, which – while not fully disappearing – strongly subsided when getting the news that I would '''not''' be offered a job at my current workplace, thus making my exit plan to a different institution would happen (blue solid line). Which made me suspect that there might be a strong sense of relief in this outcome, even if I had thought I would have preferred another outcome. As such it is quite interesting for me to see that the retrospective analysis of my data actually ''shows'' that many of those values already went back to the baseline once I had the option to move, despite still nominally being within the job application stress! | ||
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== References == | == References == | ||
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