Diary of a pandemic: Monitoring of work-related stress symptoms among healthcare workers through a mobile application. (Dagbok från en pandemi: Övervakning av arbetsrelaterade stressymtom hos vårdpersonal genom en mobilapplikation.)

The Covid-19 pandemic highlighted an urgent need for early interventions to mitigate the psychological effects of extreme work demands that healthcare workers currently experience. This project aims at developing a data-driven monitoring system to efficiently track work-related stress reactions over time. The system will also include a self-awareness intervention grounded on evidence-based strategies to improve workers' recovery. The solution will be delivered through a mobile application for a rapid implementation among healthcare workers and related professions. The mobile application will be developed through an initial analysis of pilot data, a series of factorial experiments and a user-experience analysis. Apart from the self-reported data, objective workload estimates and qualitative user experience data will be used to validate the functionality of the monitoring system. Time plan includes three phases: pilot data analysis in Aug-Sep 2020, mobile application development and factorial experiments in Oct-Dec 2020, and data analysis and results communication in year 2021. Already during the current pandemic, the solution developed in this project will be easily scalable to related occupations, for example workers at elderly homes and social workers. After the pandemic, it can also be used as a preventive intervention for workers who are at risk of burnout and as a support for patients returning to work after treatment for common mental disorders. Psykologi (exklusive tillämpad psykologi); Arbetsmedicin och miljömedicin; Folkhälsovetenskap, global hälsa, socialmedicin och epidemiologi