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Table 1 Study PEO inclusion and exclusion criteria

From: Digitally connected work and its consequences for strain – a systematic review

Criterion

Inclusion

Exclusion

Population

• working population

• children and youth, students, non-working population(e.g., titles like “Life satisfaction and problematic Internet use: Evidence for gender specific effects”; “Technology-based interventions for preventing and treating substance use among youth”)

Exposure

• digital technologies, work processes in a digital context

• influence of technologies on employees

• use of technology for diagnostic purposes (e.g., the use of telemedicine for stroke patients like “Interactive computer-assisted program for cervical liquidbased cytology”)

• use of technology for the purpose of teaching/training (e.g., introduction to new radiological technologies like “Integrating Artificial and Human Intelligence: A Partnership for Responsible Innovation in Biomedical Engineering and Medicine” or “The stress and workload of virtual reality training: the effects of presence, immersion and flow”)

• focus on the use of information and communication technologies (e.g., “Impact of BYOD on organizational commitment: An empirical investigation”)

• focus on the concept of technostress

Outcome

• all health/well-being outcomes in context of digital work factors

• health effects of the used technologies that do not affect the target population (e.g., improvement of schizophrenia patients through therapy applications with virtual reality like “Making monitoring ‘work’: human-machine interaction and patient safety in anesthesia” or “Optimal management of neonatal lung diseases using current technologies”)

Study

• original articles

• published in peer-reviewed journals

• published in English or German

• no limitation of publication date

• other publication types (e.g., conference paper, editorials, project reports, non-original research such as discussion papers/reviews)

• other languages