Those interested in participating in the study will contact the investigators via the
email address provided on the flyer. A clinical research associate will contact them and
give them an appointment at the Institute of Occupational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine,
28 place Henri Dunant, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, in order to provide them with informed
information and respond to their their questions.
If participants agree to participate, the clinical research associate will provide them
with the saliva collection kit with instructions for use and a Redcap® link to inform
their commitment, and complete an inclusion questionnaire and the first main
questionnaire. Then, the participants will receive the questionnaire directly by email
for the following fillings.
When accessing Redcap®, a brief description of the study will again be provided. We will
ask the participant to commit to their group's inclusion criteria by checking a box. The
non-opposition will be collected by clicking on "envoyer" at the end of the information
letter. The following sentence will be indicated "In the case of an agreement please
click on the button "envoyer".
After collection of the non-opposition, participant will have to completed a short
inclusion questionnaire composed of:
Initials for create an ID
Sociodemographic variables: gender, age, marital status, children, occupation, and
recent stressful event.
Group : " pratiquant " or " non pratiquant ". For those practicing sophrology: type
of practice and number of years of practice
Realization of another wellness practice
Email address to be able to receive the questionnaires each month by automatic
sending. In order to guarantee anonymity, the email address of the participants will
not be accessible to the investigators / collaborators of the study. They will thus
be contacted by email directly by REDCap® for the questionnaire filling (identical
questionnaire each month during 6 months).
The self-administered main questionnaire will be composed of:
Information about saliva sampling: Date and time of collection, Time of awakening on
day of collection, Eppendorf number
Visual analog scales assessing the perceived stress, anxiety, sleep quality,
fatigue, time judgment and emotions on a horizontal, non-calibrated line of 100 mm,
ranging from very low (0) to very high (100).
Lifestyle variables: treatment, physical activity, addiction (alcohol, cannabis, and
tobacco), coffee/tea and food intake.
Sophrology practice: Number of sessions per week, type of practice, stress before
and after the last sophrology session, realization of another wellness practice
Furthermore, each participant will do a self-collection of saliva the first week of each
month, upon waking up, on a day of the week chosen by the participant as being as
reproducible as possible. Participants will have to keep the samples in their freezer and
bring them back to us in an ice pack at the end of the 6 months. For this purpose, in the
last questionnaire, we will display a window asking them to contact us to organise the
return of their saliva samples.
