TY - JOUR U1 - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed) A1 - Pryss, Rüdiger A1 - John, Dennis A1 - Schlee, Winfried A1 - Schlotz, Wolff A1 - Schobel, Johannes A1 - Kraft, Robin A1 - Spiliopoulou, Myra A1 - Langguth, Berthold A1 - Reichert, Manfred A1 - O'Rourke, Teresa A1 - Peters, Henning A1 - Pieh, Christoph A1 - Lahmann, Claas A1 - Probst, Thomas T1 - A longitudinal pilot study on stress-levels in the crowdsensing mHealth platform TrackYourStress JF - JMIR Mhealth Uhealth N2 - Background: The mobile phone app, TrackYourStress (TYS), is a new crowdsensing mobile health platform for ecological momentary assessments of perceived stress levels. Objective: In this pilot study, we aimed to investigate the time trend of stress levels while using TYS for the entire population being studied and whether the individuals’ perceived stress reactivity moderates stress level changes while using TYS. Methods: Using TYS, stress levels were measured repeatedly with the 4-item version of the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-4), and perceived stress reactivity was measured once with the Perceived Stress Reactivity Scale (PSRS). A total of 78 nonclinical participants, who provided 1 PSRS assessment and at least 4 repeated PSS-4 measurements, were included in this pilot study. Linear multilevel models were used to analyze the time trend of stress levels and interactions with perceived stress reactivity. Results: Across the whole sample, stress levels did not change while using TYS (P=.83). Except for one subscale of the PSRS, interindividual differences in perceived stress reactivity did not influence the trajectories of stress levels. However, participants with higher scores on the PSRS subscale reactivity to failure showed a stronger increase of stress levels while using TYS than participants with lower scores (P=.04). Conclusions: TYS tracks the stress levels in daily life, and most of the results showed that stress levels do not change while using TYS. Controlled trials are necessary to evaluate whether it is specifically TYS or any other influence that worsens the stress levels of participants with higher reactivity to failure. KW - Stress KW - Studie KW - TrackYourStress KW - Gesundheitsförderung KW - Smartphone Y1 - 2019 UR - https://mhealth.jmir.org/2019/10/e13978 U6 - https://doi.org/10.2196/13978 DO - https://doi.org/10.2196/13978 VL - 7 IS - 10 ER -