Bringing the science of stress to daily-life
The Stress in Action (SiA) Consortium aims to gain insight into the causes and consequences of daily-life stress. Aiming to provide a path towards more stress-resilient citizens. Prof. Brenda Penninx of the Department of Psychiatry Amsterdam UMC is coordinator of this consortium.
The Netherlands possesses internationally renowned scientific leaders in the field of ambulatory assessment of stress response and stress-related diseases, paired to unique large-scale research infrastructures and a solid tradition of methodological and statistical innovation. SiA’s consortium combines these unique strengths into a highly multidisciplinary collaboration. This consortium will put Dutch daily-life stress research at the forefront of science. The SiA consortium consists of over 25 people with multidisciplinary backgrounds. The consortium is affiliated with five universities (VU Amsterdam, Utrecht University, Erasmus University Rotterdam, University of Groningen, University of Twente) and their University Medical Centers (Amsterdam UMC, UMCG, EMC).
Stress in Action will provide novel insights into the aetiology of daily-life stress. How can we reliably measure stress? How is daily-life stress impacted by context and individual variation? And how and when turn the potentially beneficial acute effects of stress on human functioning into a detrimental impact on mental and cardiometabolic health? Stress in Action will also enable tailored, personalised feedback on daily-life stress profiles in citizen-owned stress reduction interventions.
