What Is the Wellbeing Score?
The Sahha Wellbeing Score (0–100) provides a comprehensive view of overall health by analysing both physical activity and sleep patterns together. It tracks key metrics including steps, active hours, sleep duration, recovery, and circadian alignment to offer a holistic understanding of how daily habits support physical and mental health.
The Wellbeing Score is designed to assist users in creating positive daily habits that foster long-term health. It should be seen as a guide for gradual, sustainable improvement rather than a strict measure of success or failure.
Why Is the Wellbeing Score Important?
Understanding your Wellbeing Score is valuable when aiming to maintain a balanced, healthy lifestyle. Harmony between physical activity and quality sleep is essential for overall wellbeing, leading to better physical health, energy, mood, and mental clarity.
The score helps you recognise how different factors like movement and rest contribute to your health, enabling adjustments to improve both activity levels and sleep habits.
How to Interpret the Wellbeing Score
The Wellbeing Score is presented on a scale from 0 to 100 and categorised into four levels:
- 81–100 (High): Habits are well-aligned, supporting movement and rest effectively.
- 66–80 (Medium): Lifestyle moderately supports health, with opportunities to improve activity or sleep consistency.
- 51–65 (Low): Health may be impacted by insufficient activity or poor sleep quality; consider habit adjustments.
- 0–50 (Minimal): Significant lifestyle imbalances may negatively affect health; more substantial changes are recommended.
Factors Contributing to the Wellbeing Score
The Wellbeing Score is built on several key factors that together provide a comprehensive view of overall health. Each factor assesses how daily habits support physical and mental wellbeing.
Activity metrics
- Steps
- Active hours
- Active calories
- Intense activity
- Extended inactivity
- Floors climbed
Sleep metrics
- Sleep duration
- Sleep regularity
- Sleep continuity
- Sleep debt
- Circadian alignment
- Physical recovery (deep sleep)
- Mental recovery (REM sleep)
These factors are combined to reflect your overall health rather than focusing on any single metric.
What Data Is Used From Phones and Wearables?
The Wellbeing Score is designed to be flexible, using data from either smartphones or wearable devices.
Phone-based data
Smartphones can estimate steps, active hours, floors climbed, sleep duration, and extended inactivity using sensors and user input. While helpful, this may not capture the full detail wearables provide.
Wearable-based data
When a wearable device is connected, all 13 factors — including precise sleep stages, activity intensity, and active calories — are derived from it for a more comprehensive and accurate assessment. The score adapts to the available data to provide the most relevant insights.
How to Improve the Wellbeing Score
You can improve your Wellbeing Score by focusing on the factors that contribute to it. Making small, consistent adjustments in daily habits can enhance overall health and wellbeing. Common recommendations include:
- Steps: Increase daily steps through walking, stairs, or movement breaks.
- Active hours: Break up sedentary time and stay active throughout the day.
- Active calories: Boost activity intensity or duration to burn more calories.
- Intense activity: Add moderate or vigorous workouts to support cardiovascular health.
- Extended inactivity: Reduce long periods of sitting with standing or movement prompts.
- Floors climbed: Choose stairs or hill walking to increase vertical movement.
- Sleep duration: Prioritise sufficient sleep (7–9 hours) with a regular schedule.
- Sleep regularity: Go to bed and wake up at consistent times.
- Sleep continuity: Create a dark, quiet, and cool sleep environment for uninterrupted sleep.
- Sleep debt: Catch up on lost sleep with extra rest or short naps.
- Circadian alignment: Align your sleep–wake cycle with natural day–night rhythms.
- Physical and mental recovery: Support restorative sleep and recovery with relaxation practices and stress management techniques.
Small improvements over time can lead to significant enhancements in overall health and lifestyle balance.