The Moderating Effect of Atypical Events on the Relationship Between Heart Rate and Stress in Medical Residents Working in an Intensive Care Unit: Longitudinal, Observational Daily Diary Study
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: Residency is a critical period in a physician's training, characterized by significant physical, cognitive, and emotional demands that make residents highly susceptible to stress and associated negative health outcomes. While physiological signals such as heart rate have been explored as potential biomarkers of stress, their predictive utility in high-stress environments such as the intensive care unit (ICU) remains inconclusive, especially when factoring in atypical events that can further exacerbate resident stress levels. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to investigate the relationship between daily average heart rate (AHR) and perceived stress among ICU residents and examine the moderating effect of atypical events on this relationship. METHODS: The TILES (Tracking Individual Performance With Sensors)-2019 dataset collected longitudinal data from 44 ICU residents who provided daily self-reported stress ratings and wore a Fitbit device to track physiological data over a 3-week period. The main predictor variables were AHR and the occurrence of atypical events (both work and life related and daily hassles). The primary outcome was the level of perceived stress measured on a 7-point Likert scale. Linear mixed models were used to analyze the relationship between AHR and stress, accounting for within-subject and between-subject variance. Interaction effects between AHR and atypical events were also examined. RESULTS: The analysis revealed a significant positive association between AHR and perceived stress (β=0.032; P=.04) on standard days. However, this relationship was attenuated by the presence of negative atypical events (β=-0.076; P=.02). We further analyzed whether the severity of negative atypical events had an additional moderating effect but found no statistical significance. CONCLUSIONS: AHR is a potential physiological marker for perceived stress in ICU residents, but its effect is moderated by negative atypical events. Future research should replicate these findings in more diverse cohorts, assess their generalizability to broader populations, and control for additional confounding variables. Incorporating negative atypical events into stress assessment could lead to more accurate and context-sensitive interpretations of physiological data.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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