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Digital tools can help monitor family caregiver stress, but interventions must provide actionable data and avoid increasing burden or harm. This research explores caregiver perspectives on stress monitoring technologies.

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  • Gerontology and Aging Studies
  • Digital Health and mHealth
  • Caregiver Support and Intervention Research

Background:

  • Family caregivers face significant burden, financial strain, and psychological distress.
  • Effective stress management is crucial for caregivers managing their own health and the care recipient's.
  • Digital stress monitoring offers a potential strategy for identifying interventions to reduce caregiver burden.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore family caregivers' perceptions of using digital and biosensing technologies for stress measurement.
  • To identify the acceptability, challenges, and opportunities associated with these monitoring methods.

Main Methods:

  • Descriptive qualitative study utilizing semistructured interviews with 27 family caregivers.
  • Reflexive thematic analysis was employed to analyze interview data.
  • Interviews focused on general stress monitoring, ecological momentary assessment, smartwatches, and fluid biosensors.

Main Results:

  • Three key themes emerged: 'providing meaningful data,' 'low-burden monitoring,' and 'inadvertent harms of stress monitoring.'
  • Caregivers emphasized the need for data to lead to action and support self-management.
  • Concerns included stigma, discretion, potential for increased stress, and trust in monitoring technologies.

Conclusions:

  • Digital stress monitoring acceptability hinges on providing actionable, situation-specific data.
  • Interventions must ensure monitoring does not increase caregiver burden or cause harm.
  • Findings offer considerations for social care, researchers, and policymakers implementing caregiver stress interventions.