Pilot Projects Conducted Within IMPRESS

To validate the developed Stress Factor Assessment tool, the IMPRESS project piloted the tool and supporting materials with 18 external pilot users and collected their feedback to inform a final fine-tuning of the software, the underlying methods and training materials. Additionally, the project collected anonymised potential stressors and their real-life impact from around 1500 people to act as a population level reference database against which an individual could compare their own personal stressor profile. The collection of anonymised data from the assessment tools is an ongoing process feeding into a joint data repository used by two projects that are complimentary to IMPRESS, namely the SSTeMM project (Student Stress Training e-Mobile Management) and WLF (An Excellence based self-assessment for a positive work-life flow in times of remote working and social distancing). The continual growth of the data repository allows the individual user to apply some socio-demographic filters (like age group, gender, country, employment status, etc.) against which to benchmark their personal data without losing anonymity or statistical validity. This chapter provides an overview of the main results arising from the analysis of the 1500 anonymised data sets collected at the end of the IMPRESS project’s run-time. It then presents a number of case studies drawn from the 18 external pilots done as part of IMPRESS in several European countries. These case studies are divided into two main groups—“commercial organisations” and “educational institutions.”