Changes in Stress Mindset and EEG through E-Healthcare Based Education

Abstract

This paper presents a new approach to stress management and its effects on cognition, including brain wave analysis. An individual may have a particular mindset regarding stress, believing it to be either enhancing or debilitating. When experiencing stress, a person with an enhancing mindset responds in a healthier way and receives less negative influence from stress than a person with a debilitating mindset. Stress mindsets can be altered through education. This paper measures whether or not e-healthcare-based education can help students change their stress mindset from debilitating to enhancing. Further, it analyzes changes in electroencephalography (EEG) response when students with an enhanced mindset are stressed. Through health care education, people can acquire a stress enhancing mindset. If an individual has such a mindset, their EEG will show that they are more responsive in stress situations. Thus, educating people so that they acquire this mindset will reduce negative influences caused by stressful situations, such as health deterioration.