What is the clinical evidence from this study?

Study design: Cross-Sectional. Population: Stress Reactivity (n=61). Intervention: Perceived stress reactivity (PSRS-AA). Primary outcome: Association between perceived stress reactivity (RSE subscale) and high-frequency heart-rate variability (HF-HRV) during a socially evaluated cold pressor test.

What question did this study set out to answer?

To evaluate the validity of a self-report measure of adolescent perceived stress reactivity against heart-rate variability and subjective stress appraisals during an acute laboratory stressor.

May 9, 2019Frontiers in PsychologyOpen Access

Validating a Self-Report Measure of Student Athletes’ Perceived Stress Reactivity: Associations With Heart-Rate Variability and Stress Appraisals

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Key result

Individual differences in perceived stress reactivity showed no significant associations with tonic or phasic levels of heart-rate variability during a socially evaluated cold pressor test, but were associated with self-reported stress and pain.

Why the study?

Valid alternatives to costly, time-consuming lab-based physiological methods for assessing individual differences in stress reactivity in student athletes are lacking.

Does perceived stress reactivity correlate with heart-rate variability and stress appraisals during a socially evaluated cold pressor test in university students?

Key Points

To evaluate the validity of a self-report measure of adolescent perceived stress reactivity against heart-rate variability and subjective stress appraisals during an acute laboratory stressor.
Enrolled 30 student athletes and 31 student non-athletes who completed a self-report scale of perceived stress reactivity.
Administered the socially evaluated cold pressor test while continuously recording tonic and phasic heart-rate variability.
Measured self-reported stress, pain, and unpleasantness appraisals during the test, controlling for gender and athletic status.
Perceived stress reactivity showed no significant association with tonic or phasic heart-rate variability after controlling for gender and athleticism.
Higher perceived stress reactivity scores were significantly associated with increased self-reported ratings of stress, pain, and unpleasantness during the challenge.

Study Design

Type

Cross-Sectional (n=61)

Structured PICO

Does perceived stress reactivity correlate with heart-rate variability and stress appraisals during a socially evaluated cold pressor test in university students?

Population

61 full-time university students (30 athletes and 31 non-athletes) with a mean age of 20.11 years underwent a socially evaluated cold pressor test to validate a self-report measure of perceived stress reactivity.

Exposure

Socially evaluated cold pressor test (SECPT) with measurement of high-frequency heart rate variability (HF-HRV) and self-reported stress appraisals.

Outcome

Association between perceived stress reactivity (RSE subscale) and high-frequency heart rate variability (HF-HRV) as well as subjective stress appraisals (VAS for stress, pain, and unpleasantness).surrogate

Perceived stress reactivity in student athletes correlates with subjective cognitive stress appraisals but not with physiological heart-rate variability responses during a cold pressor test.

Limitations

Use of mere participation in competitive sport as a binary measure of athleticism, which did not control for aerobic fitness levels.
Use of a log10 transform for HF-HRV data makes findings difficult to compare with previous research using natural log transformations.
The baseline resting and post-task periods required participants to remain still, which may have been demanding enough to provoke changes in HF-HRV, failing to produce a reliable baseline.
Water consumption was not controlled for prior to testing.

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Implication

Perceived stress reactivity links to subjective but not HRV responses in student athletes; leaves open self-report scale validity as low-cost alternative.

Cite This Study

Britton et al. (2019) conducted a cross-sectional in Stress Reactivity (n=61). Perceived stress reactivity (PSRS-AA) was evaluated on Association between perceived stress reactivity (RSE subscale) and high-frequency heart-rate variability (HF-HRV) during a socially evaluated cold pressor test. Individual differences in perceived stress reactivity showed no significant associations with tonic or phasic levels of heart-rate variability during a socially evaluated cold pressor test, but were associated with self-reported stress and pain.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a9eafc6a7e2dafd7c61e66e https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01083

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Implication

Perceived stress reactivity links to subjective but not HRV responses in student athletes; leaves open self-report scale validity as low-cost alternative.

Validating a Self-Report Measure of Student Athletes’ Perceived Stress Reactivity: Associations With Heart-Rate Variability and Stress Appraisals

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Study Design

Structured PICO

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Discussion

Implication

Cite This Study

Validating a Self-Report Measure of Student Athletes’ Perceived Stress Reactivity: Associations With Heart-Rate Variability and Stress Appraisals

Key Points

Study Design

Structured PICO

Limitations

Discussion

Implication

Cite This Study

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