Hormone-based stress monitoring showed no statistically significant changes in several reviewed studies despite being the second most used physiological method¶

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Evidence · 1 study · review r3 · q2
Currency · newest study 2022 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 2025: tool and model accuracy changes quickly

Subclaims¶

q2 i? For several included studies, no statistically significant changes in hormone levels were found when participants encountered stressors, and hormones are described as less accurate for acute stress. → Tjønnås Maria Suong 2022

Evidence¶

Tjønnås Maria Suong 2022¶

Tjønnås Maria Suong, Guzmán-García Carmen, Sánchez-González Patricia, Gómez Enrique Javier, Oropesa Ignacio, Våpenstad Cecilie. (2022). Stress in surgical educational environments: a systematic review. BMC Medical Education. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-022-03841-6

q2 · i? · review · r3

Review synthesis of 10 articles using hormone-based monitoring (cortisol, alpha-amylase, testosterone). The review reports "no statistically significant changes were found in hormone levels when participants encountered stressors"; no effect size is printed, so no magnitude is asserted.

"For several studies included in this review, no statistically significant changes were found in hormone levels when participants encountered stressors [20, 23, 82, 85, 92]."

Discussion¶

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