Does heart rate variability biofeedback improve depressive symptoms in adult samples?
Heart rate variability biofeedback improves depressive symptoms and should be considered a valid technique to increase psychological well-being in adults.
(4) = 12.65, p = 0.01) significantly moderated the effect of the interventions and reduced heterogeneity. Overall, results showed that HRVB improves depressive symptoms in several psychophysiological conditions in adult samples and should be considered as a valid technique to increase psychological well-being.
Pizzoli et al. (2021) studied this question.