TAP reading note: The persistent effect of acute psychosocial stress on heart rate variability
At the recorded recovery assessment, emotional ratings returned toward baseline while selected non-linear HRV indices remained different. The study illustrates that subjective relief and cardiac measures need not change together.
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What the study found
At the recorded recovery assessment, emotional ratings returned toward baseline while selected non-linear HRV indices remained different. The study illustrates that subjective relief and cardiac measures need not change together.
Scope & limitations
33 healthy young participants: 23 men and 10 women.
Small sample, multiple HRV metrics and short observation. LF/HF cannot be assumed to measure autonomic balance; findings do not establish a universal recovery deadline.
Population & sample
33 healthy young participants: 23 men and 10 women.
Exposure or intervention
TSST with emotion ratings, ECG-derived measures and saliva sampling.
Outcomes
Selected HRV indices, emotional visual-analogue scores and cortisol.
Time frame
Before/after task and a 20-minute recovery period.
Research funding
Not yet verified against the full text.
Research conflicts of interest
The PubMed-indexed author declaration states no competing interests.
Reading scope
PubMed record and accessible PMC methods/results passages on sample, assessments and recovery. No participant data were reanalysed; the complete funding declaration was not verified.
References
Publication record
TAP-RDN-0094 · v1.0 · English
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