Key result
Higher heart rate variability coherence scores were inversely and significantly correlated with self-reported measures of stress, negative emotions, and depressive cognitions.
Why the study?
Do coherence scores reflecting HRV correlate with self-report measures of stress, negative emotions, and depressive cognitions in grandmothers raising grandchildren?
Cross-Sectional (n=20)
Do coherence scores reflecting HRV correlate with self-report measures of stress, negative emotions, and depressive cognitions in grandmothers raising grandchildren?
Higher HRV coherence scores inversely correlate with self-reported stress and depression in grandmothers raising grandchildren, suggesting potential utility for HRV biofeedback.
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Hypothesis-generating for HRV biofeedback in stressed caregivers; should not yet change clinical practice.
Research shows that 20% of grandmothers raising grandchildren experience stress and depression. Heart rate variability (HRV) biofeedback may help grandmothers track and regulate their physiological response to stress. This study therefore examined correlations between coherence scores reflecting HRV and self-report measures of stress, negative emotions, and depressive cognitions in 20 grandmothers raising grandchildren. Higher coherence scores were inversely and significantly correlated with self-report measures, suggesting the need to examine the effects of HRV biofeedback on biomarkers reflecting stress and depression.
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Zauszniewski et al. (2015) conducted a cross-sectional in Stress and depression (n=20). Heart rate variability (HRV) coherence scores was evaluated on Correlations between coherence scores reflecting HRV and self-report measures of stress, negative emotions, and depressive cognitions. Higher heart rate variability coherence scores were inversely and significantly correlated with self-reported measures of stress, negative emotions, and depressive cognitions.
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