57% of respondents agree that mobile applications and wearable devices can improve their quality of life.
As a company with a focus on wearable smart devices, including smart watches and smart bracelets, Huawei has for the second year in a row initiated an international study conducted by IPSOS, which examines the impact of the pandemic on people’s quality of life. Both studies, conducted in 2020 and 2021, respectively, seek people’s own assessment of how changed living conditions have affected their physical and mental health, and whether and how modern technology can help them improve.
According to this year’s IPSOS survey conducted for Huawei in 10 countries1 the majority of the 600 respondents surveyed indicated that their lifestyle had changed a lot in the last year and a half. 58% of the surveyed Bulgarians answered that they spend more time in front of the TV or computer. At the same time, 46% of the 600 people surveyed said that their levels of stress and anxiety had increased. In most cases, stress causes them to stop paying attention to whether they are eating healthily or not – 36% admitted that they have started eating less healthily and their weight has increased in the last year.
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What are the negative symptoms?
In Bulgaria, the most common symptom, reported by 53% of respondents, is overall exhaustion, loss of energy and a feeling of increased fatigue, and compared to last year’s data it has increased by 8 percentage points. The rate of people identifying unhealthy anxiety has also risen – 48%, compared to 33% during last year’s survey. The percentage is impressively high – 42%, of those who share problems with their sleep, as well as of those who are overloaded with tasks – 32%. Another 30% say about the overall decline in interest and pleasure in the things they do, and 29% about decreased attention and concentration.
Fortunately, people want to change that. 66% of respondents said they wanted to improve their physical health, and 55% and mental health. To this end, we are looking for different solutions to encourage us to train and return more easily to an active lifestyle.
Do technologies help?
Now more than ever, Bulgarians want to change their lifestyle and improve their health. To this end, they are ready to use new technologies that can help them get back in shape.
57% of respondents agree that mobile applications and wearable devices can improve their quality of life. In addition, more than half of the 600 people surveyed said they had helped them reduce stress in the past year. Besides smartphones, smart watches and smart bracelets are the most popular devices among Bulgarians, who declare their intention to buy such devices within the next few months.
We are looking for solutions
The new series of Huawei Watch 3 smartwatches announced in the summer has a lot to offer in this direction. With over 100 sports modes and a wide variety of sports, from ultra-intense to much more meditative, it inspires its owners to try to practice active ways of unloading more regularly. In addition, measuring health indicators such as heart rate, blood oxygen saturation and skin temperature, as well as stress levels and sleep phases, detecting and notifying a number when falling, makes it a valuable partner in building better quality. of life. With a new update from today – International Handwashing Day, all models in the Huawei Watch 3 series will also support a function for monitoring the duration of hand washing.
The latest model in the series, which the company offered in Bulgaria in response to the increased demand for options with metal straps and the shared in the study focus on the durability of materials, is Huawei Watch 3 Elite. It has a 46mm body and a stainless steel chain and comes with a second strap in the box, made of high-tech ergonomic black fluoroelastomer, especially suitable for intense sports and swimming.
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For all Huawei smart watches and bracelets, the HUAWEI Health mobile app allows users to see their lives in incredible detail with health statistics. All-day monitoring of stress and sleep, heart rate indicators, blood oxygen levels, number of steps and more – all data are displayed in clear, dynamic graphs, for easy and quick information of users. And of course – as a motivation for a healthier and happier life.
1The survey was conducted in Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Serbia and Turkey in July 2021
The material is provided by Huawei.
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