The effects of exposure to environmental factors on Heart Rate Variability: An ecological perspective

Schnell, Izhak; Potchter, Oded; Epstein, Yoram; Yaakov, Yaron; Hermesh, Hagai; Brenner, S.; Tirosh, Emanuel

doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2013.02.005

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“…Platforms introduced by Badler (2014) and Khan (2014) appear to have some potential to be adapted to serve such purposes. Since physical activities (Klepeis, 2006), anthropometry (Clougherty, 2010;Davies and Whyatt, 2014), and psychological factors (Schnell et al, 2013) are also important contributors of human performance when exposed to various environmental factors, it is critical to expand the coverage of this methodology through follow-up studies. The authors hope that the conceptual model and working example proposed in this study increases attention on concerns about sustainability and builds awareness in HF/E and DHM communities about opportunities for future applications and the broad potential of the discipline for solving sustainability-related problems.…”

Section: Discussion and Future Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The physiological characteristics such as gender (Clougherty, 2010), age, weight and health condition (Davies and Whyatt, 2014) are also important contributors of human performance when exposed to pollutants. In addition, psychological factors (task stressors in work environment) also have adverse impacts in human performance, which demonstrate a correlation with the increase in air pollutants (Schnell et al, 2013). There are also seasonal and overall global temperature change related trends found to be affecting the concentrations of free-floating pollutants in air.…”

Section: Air Pollution Risk In Human Healthmentioning

confidence: 95%

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Opportunities for meeting sustainability objectives

Demirel

Zhang

Duffy

2016

International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics

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confidence: 99%

Section: Air Pollution Risk In Human Healthmentioning

confidence: 95%

Opportunities for meeting sustainability objectives

Demirel

Zhang

Duffy

2016

International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics

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“…These studies focus on the effects of visits to parks on the ANS balance and indicate the direct relations between the extent of green spaces in the city and people levels of stress and risk to health [44]. Some of these studies show that even short visits in small urban parks are associated with relaxation [45].…”

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confidence: 99%

Ethnic Differences in Home Related Maternal Stress: Muslim and Jewish Mothers

Saadi¹,

Tirosh²,

Agay-Shay³

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Parental stresses are normal responses to raising children. They are affected by stresses parents and children accumulate and bring to their interrelations. Background factors like economic difficulties or the relations between the parents may affect parental stresses as well as demographic and environmental factors like noise and access to urban parks. Most studies on parental stress are based on a verified psychological questionnaire. We suggest using frequency domain heart rate variability index (HRV) to measure parental stress enabling, by thus, the measurement of physiological aspects of stress and risk to health. Parental stress is measured as the difference between HRV accumulated at home while staying with the children and without the husband and HRV measured in the neighborhood while staying without the children and the husband. We use the index to compare differences among Muslim and Jewish mothers in exposure to maternal stress at their homes and to expose the factors that predict differences in maternal stress. We found that Muslim mothers suffer from home-related maternal stress while Jewish mother do not. Number of children and ethnically related environmental aspects predict differences in maternal stress between Muslim and Jewish mothers. Muslims' lower access to parks stems from lack of home garden and parks in their neighborhoods in the Arab towns but mainly by restrictions on Muslim women's' freedom of movement to parks. Despite differences in levels of noise at home and in the status of the mother in the household, these factors did not predict differences in parental stress. Instead, the study highlights the crucial role of greenery and freedom of movement to parks in moderating home-related maternal stress.

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“…The activation of SNS mitigates the fluctuation of RRIs and decreases HRV, whereas the activation of PNS causes the increase in HRV [4,50]. HRV immediately reacts to the appearance of stressors, such as the change in temperature, noise, and the concentration of carbon monoxide in the atmosphere [32]. Because of these characteristics, HRV has been regarded as one of the indicators for measuring the physiological stress level.…”

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confidence: 99%

Measuring Affective Well-Being by the Combination of the Day Reconstruction Method and a Wearable Device: Case Study of an Aging and Depopulating Community in Japan

Ishio

Abe

2017

Augment Hum Res

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Affective well-being indicates the changes in the predominance of positive or negative affects of people in response to their daily experiences. For measuring affective well-being, people are usually asked to indicate their affective states in several episodes that they experienced in a day. However, such conventional methods have been problematic in terms of their burdensomeness on participants and the validity of the rating. To overcome these problems, we attempted to introduce a new approach for measuring affective states, based on the combination of the day reconstruction method and the measurement of physiological stress levels by a wristband-type wearable device. As the indicator of physiological stress levels, we used heart rate variability calculated from the data recorded by the device. We examined the interpretability of the physiological stress level as a substitute for affective states by applying this combinational approach to an aging and depopulating village in Japan, because the well-being of the residents in such areas is a matter of public concern. As a result, we could depict the sources of affective well-being and the physiological stressors in the village. We also found a reasonable, but weak, correlation between the scores of affective states and the indicator of physiological stress levels. We discussed the challenges that should be overcome for utilizing the physiological stress level as a substitute for affective state.

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The effects of exposure to environmental factors on Heart Rate Variability: An ecological perspective

Cited by 43 publications

References 46 publications

Opportunities for meeting sustainability objectives

Opportunities for meeting sustainability objectives

Ethnic Differences in Home Related Maternal Stress: Muslim and Jewish Mothers

Measuring Affective Well-Being by the Combination of the Day Reconstruction Method and a Wearable Device: Case Study of an Aging and Depopulating Community in Japan

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