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July 27, 2022PLoS ONEOpen Access

Physiological reactions to acute stressors and subjective stress during daily life: A systematic review on ecological momentary assessment (EMA) studies

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Why the study?

This review aims to provide an overview of ecological momentary assessment studies analyzing stress reactivity during daily life regarding direct and moderated influences of acute stress on physiological responses.

Does acute stress exposure during daily life influence physiological responses measured via ecological momentary assessment?

Population

104 unique studies across 107 publications evaluating stress reactivity under naturalistic conditions

Design

Systematic review

Authors

JWJeannette WeberJAJennifer Apolinário-Hagen

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Overview

Acute daily stress may raise cortisol, BP, and HR; extends lab findings to real-world EMA but leaves causal and clinical impact open.

Structured PICO

Does acute stress exposure during daily life influence physiological responses measured via ecological momentary assessment?

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Population
107 publications involving 104 unique prospective ecological momentary assessment (EMA) studies targeting acute stressors or stress under naturalistic conditions, without restrictions of publication date or population.
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Intervention
Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) of acute stress exposure during daily life
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Outcome
Physiological responses (primarily salivary cortisol and cardiovascular outcomes such as blood pressure and heart rate)surrogate

About half of the reviewed EMA studies demonstrated direct associations between everyday acute stress exposure and physiological responses, including increased cortisol levels, blood pressure, and heart rate.

Limitations

  • Moderate risk of recall bias
  • Moderate risk of confounding

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Weber et al. (2022) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a7d732eec6dad7f5aaa19b3https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0271996
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