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Monitoring Athlete Wellbeing

Learn how Lumin tracks athlete wellbeing through daily check-ins, personalised flagging, alerts, and wellness data insights.

Written by James Mckechnie

Track and monitor athlete wellbeing using Lumin’s wellness tools. This includes daily check-ins, automated flagging, and visual dashboards to help you identify trends and take action.

Morning Check-in

Below is a list of the wellness specific questions asked in the default wellness survey:

  • Sleep Duration

  • Sleep Quality (0 to 10, where 0 is Severely Disturbed, and 10 is Excellent)

  • General Soreness (0 to 10, where 0 is No Soreness and 10 is Severe)

  • Stress (0 to 10, where 0 is No Stress and 10 is Highly Stressed)

  • Fatigue (0 to 10, where 0 is No Fatigue and 10 is Total Fatigue and exhaustion)

  • Mood (0 to 10, where 0 is Low and 10 is Fantastic)

  • Motivation (0 to 10, where 0 is No Motivation and 10 is Very Motivated)

  • Illnesses and Injuries

  • Menstruation (if enabled)

  • General Comments (if enabled)

The questions and wordhooks are based on what was established as the key pillars for athlete wellbeing with a focus on stress and recovery on the basis of Kellmann and Kolling's (2018) work.

We recommend pushing this to athletes on training days, or 3-5 days a week. This ensures we are able to accurately detect fluctuations in the numbers that athletes are reporting.

Configuring Wellness Attributes

Administrators can now control how each wellness attribute is presented and whether it is included in the survey.

To configure which wellness questions are included in the wellness survey, use the following steps:

  1. Open Admin > Settings and navigate to Wellness tab.

  2. Select an attribute to open its configuration modal.

  3. Set the display minimum, display maximum, rounding step, and whether higher or lower is better.

  4. Save the attribute. Wellness settings and dependent views refresh automatically.

  5. Disable an attribute to remove it from new Morning Check-ins and dashboard selectors while retaining its historical records.

  6. Re-enable the attribute later if it should return to wellness collection.

Only enabled wellness attributes will be displayed on the overview dashboard. Any historical data from disabled attributes will remain available.

Flagging

An athletes's wellness is "flagged" by comparing their current wellbeing score against their 7-day average. We also take into account the athlete's standard-deviation, to only flag when an athlete falls outside of their typical range. When an athlete's wellbeing score is better than their personal average, their wellbeing scores will be highlighted green, whereas when they are scoring poorly, their score will be highlighted red:

Flags for an athletes wellbeing can be easily discovered in one of two ways:

  • Viewing the Overview Dashboard in Lumin

  • Configuring and receiving Wellbeing Alerts

Wellbeing Alerts for negative scores will send email alerts to assigned users. Read more about configuring Morning Check-in Alerts.

Data Visualisation

Athletes are able to access their own wellbeing scores in the Lumin Web application as well as the Lumin Mobile application.

Staff can access individual and team wellbeing data from the Lumin Web app via several locations:

Overview Dashboard

Here we show the daily submissions from the athletes along with any scores that have flagged. Clicking on a data point brings up a 90d window showing the trends over time.

Athlete Wellness tab

On the athletes wellness tab we show historical trends for all wellbeing metrics tracked via the app.

Wellness Dashboard

Similar to the Athlete Wellness tab, instead displaying visualisations with the team's data averaged on each day. Clicking on a datapoint will allow you to view all results for a given day.

Wellness Report

The wellness report provides a basic table-view of all athlete wellness data reported in a specified time frame. This report is useful for exporting and running your own queries in Excel. The wellness report can be filtered by date range and group.

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