Information System for Monitoring and Assessing Stress Among Medical Students

• Tipo: Artigo em Livro de Atas de Conferência Internacional
• Data: 2019

Autores

Eliana Silva (Autor) FEUP; Joyce Aguiar (Autor) Outra; Luís Paulo Reis (Autor) FEUP; Jorge Oliveira e Sá (Autor) Outra; Joaquim Gonçalves (Autor) Outra; Victor Carvalho (Autor) Outra

Ata de Conferência Internacional

Título: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing

Páginas: 587-596

World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, WorldCIST 2019

16 April 2019 through 19 April 2019

Indexação

Scopus - 0 Citações

Outras Informações

ID Authenticus: P-00Q-K5W

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-16184-2_56

Abstract (EN): The severe or prolonged exposure to stress-inducing factors in occupational and academic settings is a growing concern. The literature describes several potentially stressful moments experienced by medical students throughout the course, affecting cognitive functioning and learning. In this paper, we introduce the EUSTRESS Solution, that aims to create an Information System to monitor and assess, continuously and in real-time, the stress levels of the individuals in order to predict chronic stress. The Information System will use a measuring instrument based on wearable devices and machine learning techniques to collect and process stress-related data from the individual without his/her explicit interaction. A big database has been built through physiological, psychological, and behavioral assessments of medical students. In this paper, we focus on heart rate and heart rate variability indices, by comparing baseline and stress condition. In order to develop a predictive model of stress, we performed different statistical tests. Preliminary results showed the neural network had the better model fit. As future work, we will integrate salivary samples and self-report questionnaires in order to develop a more complex and intelligent model. © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019.

Idioma: Inglês

Tipo (Avaliação Docente): Científica

Nº de páginas: 10