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Assessing the feasibility of heart rate variability as an objective indicator of anxiety in older adults with dementia living in care homes
OBJECTIVE: Anxiety is reportedly prevalent in older adults with dementia living in care homes and, within this population, is most often assessed through caregiver reports. Heart rate variability (HRV) is a physiological indicator of autonomic function, whereby reduced vagally-mediated HRV is associ...
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2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7866751/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33546710 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-021-05458-2 |
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author | Quinci, Milena A. Astell, Arlene J. |
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description | OBJECTIVE: Anxiety is reportedly prevalent in older adults with dementia living in care homes and, within this population, is most often assessed through caregiver reports. Heart rate variability (HRV) is a physiological indicator of autonomic function, whereby reduced vagally-mediated HRV is associated with a variety of anxiety symptoms and disorders. This study evaluates the feasibility of collecting HRV data within this population, presents HRV data for older adults with dementia living in a care home, and examines HRV in the context of self-reported anxiety. These data were collected during a larger study examining an exercise intervention. RESULTS: HRV data, in the form of log-transformed root mean square of the successive differences (lnRMSSD), were in line with transformed data from previous research. These data provide a promising direction for the use of wrist-worn devices in future HRV research with people living with dementia in care homes. |
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spelling | pubmed-78667512021-02-08 Assessing the feasibility of heart rate variability as an objective indicator of anxiety in older adults with dementia living in care homes Quinci, Milena A. Astell, Arlene J. BMC Res Notes Research Note OBJECTIVE: Anxiety is reportedly prevalent in older adults with dementia living in care homes and, within this population, is most often assessed through caregiver reports. Heart rate variability (HRV) is a physiological indicator of autonomic function, whereby reduced vagally-mediated HRV is associated with a variety of anxiety symptoms and disorders. This study evaluates the feasibility of collecting HRV data within this population, presents HRV data for older adults with dementia living in a care home, and examines HRV in the context of self-reported anxiety. These data were collected during a larger study examining an exercise intervention. RESULTS: HRV data, in the form of log-transformed root mean square of the successive differences (lnRMSSD), were in line with transformed data from previous research. These data provide a promising direction for the use of wrist-worn devices in future HRV research with people living with dementia in care homes. BioMed Central 2021-02-05 /pmc/articles/PMC7866751/ /pubmed/33546710 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-021-05458-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Note Quinci, Milena A. Astell, Arlene J. Assessing the feasibility of heart rate variability as an objective indicator of anxiety in older adults with dementia living in care homes |
title | Assessing the feasibility of heart rate variability as an objective indicator of anxiety in older adults with dementia living in care homes |
title_full | Assessing the feasibility of heart rate variability as an objective indicator of anxiety in older adults with dementia living in care homes |
title_fullStr | Assessing the feasibility of heart rate variability as an objective indicator of anxiety in older adults with dementia living in care homes |
title_full_unstemmed | Assessing the feasibility of heart rate variability as an objective indicator of anxiety in older adults with dementia living in care homes |
title_short | Assessing the feasibility of heart rate variability as an objective indicator of anxiety in older adults with dementia living in care homes |
title_sort | assessing the feasibility of heart rate variability as an objective indicator of anxiety in older adults with dementia living in care homes |
topic | Research Note |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7866751/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33546710 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-021-05458-2 |
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