TAP Load & Recovery Profile

Purpose & development status

An original TAP self-report profile for adults aged 18 or older, covering the past seven days. It describes reported demands, recovery opportunities, recovery experiences and everyday functioning. It does not measure whole-body resilience, physiological reserve or allostatic load.

Development version: the content validity, reliability, measurement error, responsiveness and cross-language equivalence of this instrument have not been established. Source frameworks informed the proposed domains; they do not validate these items. No diagnosis, population ranking or clinical decision should be based on the profile.^[1][2][3][4]

The questions and translations were prepared with AI assistance. Independent specialist review, target-user interviews and psychometric testing have not yet been completed. The named TAP publication identifies the instrument, not an individual health record.

Response options

0 days · 1–2 days · 3–4 days · 5–7 days · Not sure / prefer not to answer

Optional context: work/study, caregiving, training/physical work, travel/schedule changes, feeling unwell, emotionally demanding events, other demands. Contexts do not affect any score.

The demands of your week.

Think about demands across work, home and other activities. Having demands does not, by itself, indicate poor resilience.

d-time — On how many days did tasks require more time than you had available?

d-attention — On how many days did your activities require sustained concentration?

d-physical — On how many days did your activities require substantial physical effort for you?

d-unplanned — On how many days did unexpected demands disrupt your plans?

The space you had to recover.

These questions describe opportunities and constraints. Time available for rest does not confirm that recovery occurred.

o-sleep — On how many days did your schedule leave enough time for the amount of sleep you felt you needed?

o-break — On how many days could you take a break when you felt you needed one?

o-switch — On how many days did you have a period when you did not need to respond to ongoing responsibilities?

o-choice — On how many days could you choose how to spend some of your time outside necessary responsibilities?

How recovery felt.

Report your own experience. There is no preferred answer, and these responses are not physiological measurements.

r-waking — On how many days did you feel refreshed after your main sleep period?

r-return — On how many days did you feel your energy return after a period of rest?

r-lingering — On how many days did tiredness remain after you had stopped a demanding activity?

r-start — On how many days did you begin your usual activities already feeling tired?

How everyday activities went.

Use your own usual level as the comparison, including any longstanding health conditions. Think about activities relevant to your life.

f-routine — On how many days did you complete your usual necessary activities with your usual level of effort?

f-attention — On how many days was concentrating on your usual tasks harder than it normally is for you?

f-cutback — On how many days did tiredness lead you to reduce an activity you had intended to do?

f-effort — On how many days did a familiar physical activity feel harder than it usually does for you?

How the profile is generated

For each item, select 0 days, 1–2 days, 3–4 days or 5–7 days; Not sure / prefer not to answer is a separate response. Each item is required to have one of these responses before the report is generated. Skipped items remain explicitly unreported.

The report restates each selected frequency in its original module. It does not average or add items, reverse-score them, assign weights or estimate a total. The response-coverage count is a completion count, not a health score. No cutoffs or normative bands are used.

Demands and recovery opportunities remain contextual descriptions. High demands do not reduce a resilience score; available rest does not prove restored function. Response categories are not biomarkers or percentages of bodily capacity.^[1][2][3]

The comparison for everyday function is the person’s own usual functioning, including longstanding conditions. An unusual week, recall error and current symptoms can affect responses. This profile cannot establish why an experience occurred or predict the response to a future challenge.

The optional diary

The optional diary records one entry per calendar day over fourteen days starting when the user chooses to begin. It asks about that day’s demands, recovery felt at the time of entry, everyday function compared with usual, and an optional event context. Each response is a separate ordinal description; missing values are allowed.

A later entry for the same date replaces that date’s previous entry. Future dates and dates outside the diary are rejected. The display includes observed entries only and never interpolates missing days. Connected points join adjacent observed days; spacing between response categories is illustrative, not a calibrated physiological interval.

No baseline, recovery speed, time constant, recovery deficit or resilience index is calculated. A fourteen-day observation window is a proposed product format, not a validated minimum for measuring resilience. Changes in self-report can reflect many influences and do not establish causation.^[1][3]

How demanding was today? — Very little / Some / Quite a lot / A great deal; Not reported is also available.

How recovered do you feel right now? — Not at all / A little / Mostly / Fully; Not reported is also available.

How did everyday activities compare with your usual level? — Much below usual / Somewhat below usual / About usual / Above usual; Not reported is also available.

Your answers & privacy

Answers are processed in the browser. The tool has no answer-submission endpoint, account or email field. Viewing the website still involves ordinary hosting requests and server access logs, but questionnaire answers are not placed in URLs or sent with those requests.

The initial profile is held in page memory. Saving on this device or starting the diary explicitly enables local browser storage for this instrument. Saving is optional. It is not an account or cloud backup; others using the same browser may be able to open saved data, and browser-data clearing can remove it.

Resume, text/JSON export, printing and deletion are user-initiated. Deletion removes this tool’s browser record and current in-memory answers; it cannot delete reports the user has already downloaded or printed. This version does not enroll participants or collect research data.

Figure specification

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exercise is not penalized.", "zh": "相对于个人的体力要求，不对运动扣分。" } }, { "id": "d-unplanned", "module": "demands", "text": { "en": "On how many days did unexpected demands disrupt your plans?", "zh": "有多少天，意外出现的要求打乱了你的安排？" }, "label": { "en": "Unexpected demands", "zh": "意外出现的要求" }, "rationale": { "en": "Unpredictability of demands, without a causal claim.", "zh": "要求的不可预期性，不作因果推断。" } }, { "id": "o-sleep", "module": "opportunities", "text": { "en": "On how many days did your schedule leave enough time for the amount of sleep you felt you needed?", "zh": "有多少天，你的安排为自己认为所需的睡眠留出了足够时间？" }, "label": { "en": "Enough time available for sleep", "zh": "为睡眠留出足够时间" }, "rationale": { "en": "Sleep opportunity, not sleep quality or a sleep disorder screen.", "zh": "睡眠机会，不是睡眠质量或睡眠障碍筛查。" } }, { "id": "o-break", "module": "opportunities", "text": { "en": "On how many days could you take a break when you felt you needed one?", "zh": "有多少天，你能在觉得需要休息时停下来休息？" }, "label": { "en": "A break when needed", "zh": "需要时能停下来休息" }, "rationale": { "en": "Access to breaks rather than successful recovery.", "zh": "获得休息的机会，不代表恢复成功。" } }, { "id": "o-switch", "module": "opportunities", "text": { "en": "On how many days did you have a period when you did not need to respond to ongoing responsibilities?", "zh": "有多少天，你有一段不必随时回应持续事务或责任的时间？" }, "label": { "en": "Time away from ongoing responsibilities", "zh": "暂时不必回应持续事务的时间" }, "rationale": { "en": "Responsibility-free time; not a validated detachment item.", "zh": "暂离责任的时间，不是经过验证的心理脱离条目。" } }, { "id": "o-choice", "module": "opportunities", "text": { "en": "On how many days could you choose how to spend some of your time outside necessary responsibilities?", "zh": "有多少天，在必要的事务之外，你可以自行决定如何安排一部分时间？" }, "label": { "en": "Choice over personal time", "zh": "自主安排个人时间" }, "rationale": { "en": "Control over time as context, not a resilience score.", "zh": "时间自主性作为背景，不是复原力评分。" } }, { "id": "r-waking", "module": "recovery", "text": { "en": "On how many days did you feel refreshed after your main sleep period?", "zh": "有多少天，在一天主要的睡眠结束后，你感到精神恢复了？" }, "label": { "en": "Feeling refreshed after sleep", "zh": "主要睡眠后感到精神恢复" }, "rationale": { "en": "Subjective restoration; not objective sleep measurement.", "zh": "主观恢复体验，不是客观睡眠测量。" } }, { "id": "r-return", "module": "recovery", "text": { "en": "On how many days did you feel your energy return after a period of rest?", "zh": "有多少天，在一段休息之后，你感到精力有所恢复？" }, "label": { "en": "Energy returning after rest", "zh": "休息后感到精力恢复" }, "rationale": { "en": "Perceived change after rest, without estimating recovery speed.", "zh": "休息后的感知变化，不估算恢复速度。" } }, { "id": "r-lingering", "module": "recovery", "text": { "en": "On how many days did tiredness remain after you had stopped a demanding activity?", "zh": "有多少天，在停止一项要求较高的活动后，疲惫感仍然持续？" }, "label": { "en": "Tiredness continuing after an activity", "zh": "活动结束后仍感到疲惫" }, "rationale": { "en": "Lingering tiredness; does not identify its cause or allostatic load.", "zh": "持续疲惫感，不识别原因或适应负荷。" } }, { "id": "r-start", "module": "recovery", "text": { "en": "On how many days did you begin your usual activities already feeling tired?", "zh": "有多少天，在开始日常活动时，你已经感到疲惫？" }, "label": { "en": "Starting activities already tired", "zh": "开始日常活动时已经疲惫" }, "rationale": { "en": "Perceived starting state, not a measure of physiological reserve.", "zh": "感知到的起始状态，不测量生理储备。" } }, { "id": "f-routine", "module": "function", "text": { "en": "On how many days did you complete your usual necessary activities with your usual level of effort?", "zh": "有多少天，你能用和平常相近的努力，完成日常必要活动？" }, "label": { "en": "Usual activities at usual effort", "zh": "以惯常努力完成日常活动" }, "rationale": { "en": "Self-reported usual function; no standardized performance test.", "zh": "自报惯常功能，不是标准化表现测试。" } }, { "id": "f-attention", "module": "function", "text": { "en": "On how many days was concentrating on your usual tasks harder than it normally is for you?", "zh": "有多少天，专注于日常任务对你来说比平时更困难？" }, "label": { "en": "Concentration harder than usual", "zh": "专注于任务比平时更困难" }, "rationale": { "en": "Functional difficulty relative to own usual state, not diagnosis.", "zh": "与自身惯常状态比较的功能困难，不作诊断。" } }, { "id": "f-cutback", "module": "function", "text": { "en": "On how many days did tiredness lead you to reduce an activity you had intended to do?", "zh": "有多少天，你因为疲惫而减少了原本打算完成的活动？" }, "label": { "en": "Reducing activities because of tiredness", "zh": "因疲惫减少原定活动" }, "rationale": { "en": "Reported interference in activity; no inference about underlying disease.", "zh": "自报活动受到影响，不推断基础疾病。" } }, { "id": "f-effort", "module": "function", "text": { "en": "On how many days did a familiar physical activity feel harder than it usually does for you?", "zh": "有多少天，一项熟悉的体力活动让你觉得比平时更费力？" }, "label": { "en": "Familiar physical activity felt harder", "zh": "熟悉的体力活动比平时更费力" }, "rationale": { "en": "Subjective exertion relative to usual; not a reserve test.", "zh": "与惯常水平比较的主观费力程度，不是储备测试。" } } ], "options": [ { "value": "0", "en": "0 days", "zh": "0 天" }, { "value": "1", "en": "1–2 days", "zh": "1–2 天" }, { "value": "2", "en": "3–4 days", "zh": "3–4 天" }, { "value": "3", "en": "5–7 days", "zh": "5–7 天" }, { "value": "skip", "en": "Not sure / prefer not to answer", "zh": "不确定 / 暂不回答" } ], "diaryFields": [ { "id": "demand", "title": { "en": "How demanding was today?", "zh": "今天生活提出的要求有多大？" }, "options": [ { "en": "Very little", "zh": "很少" }, { "en": "Some", "zh": "有一些" }, { "en": "Quite a lot", "zh": "较多" }, { "en": "A great deal", "zh": "很多" } ] }, { "id": "recovery", "title": { "en": "How recovered do you feel right now?", "zh": "此刻你觉得自己恢复得怎样？" }, "options": [ { "en": "Not at all", "zh": "完全没恢复" }, { "en": "A little", "zh": "恢复了一点" }, { "en": "Mostly", "zh": "大部分恢复" }, { "en": "Fully", "zh": "充分恢复" } ] }, { "id": "function", "title": { "en": "How did everyday activities compare with your usual level?", "zh": "今天完成日常活动的情况，与平常相比怎样？" }, "options": [ { "en": "Much below usual", "zh": "明显低于平常" }, { "en": "Somewhat below usual", "zh": "略低于平常" }, { "en": "About usual", "zh": "和平常相近" }, { "en": "Above usual", "zh": "高于平常" } ] } ] }

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