Key result
Heart rate variability biofeedback training was safe with no serious side effects and subjectively decreased anxiety in 82% of completing inpatients with eating disorders.
Why the study?
Does heart rate variability biofeedback training decrease anxiety and is it safe in inpatients with eating disorders?
Does heart rate variability biofeedback training decrease anxiety and is it safe in inpatients with eating disorders?
Heart rate variability biofeedback training appears safe and subjectively useful for decreasing anxiety in inpatients with eating disorders.
Should not yet change practice in eating disorder inpatients; hypothesis-generating for HRV biofeedback in anxiety.
Heart rate variability (HRV) biofeedback, a technique which encourages slow meditative breathing, was offered to 25 in-patients with various eating disorder diagnoses-anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder. We found that this modality had no serious side effects, and was subjectively useful to most participants. An enhanced ability to generate highly coherent HRV patterns in patients with recent onset anorexia nervosa was observed.
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Scolnick et al. (2014) conducted a letter in Eating disorders (n=24). Heart rate variability biofeedback training was evaluated on Safety and subjective decrease in anxiety. Heart rate variability biofeedback training was safe with no serious side effects and subjectively decreased anxiety in 82% of completing inpatients with eating disorders.
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