ReviewAddiction (Abingdon, England)2016
Respiratory sinus arrhythmia as a potential measure in substance use treatment--outcome studies.
Review in Addiction (Abingdon, England), 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT01960036 (Body-oriented Therapy for Womens Substance Use Disorder Treatment), which is not on this map. Cited by 18 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Body-oriented Therapy for Womens Substance Use Disorder Treatment
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 41 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Adaptive body awareness predicts fewer central sensitization-related symptoms and explains relationship between central sensitization-related symptoms and pain intensity: A cross-sectional study among individuals with chronic pain.Pain practice : the official journal of World Institute of Pain · 2022Article
- Closing the brain-heart loop: Towards more holistic models of addiction and addiction recovery.Addiction biology · 2022Review
- Influences of adversity across the lifespan on respiratory sinus arrhythmia during pregnancy.Developmental psychobiology · 2021Article
- Cardiopulmonary Resonance Function and Indices-A Quantitative Measurement for Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia.Frontiers in physiology · 2020Article
- Improvement in women's cardiovascular functioning during cognitive-behavioral therapy for alcohol use disorder.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2019Observational
- Psychological and Autonomic Correlates of Emotion Dysregulation among Women in Substance Use Disorder Treatment.Substance use & misuse · 2019Article
- Upper gastrointestinal complications following ablation therapy for atrial fibrillation.Neurogastroenterology and motility · 2017Article
- Parasympathetic Nervous System Reactivity Moderates Associations Between Children's Executive Functioning and Social and Academic Competence.Journal of abnormal child psychology · 2017Article
- Are Elevations in ADHD Symptoms Associated with Physiological Reactivity and Emotion Dysregulation in Children?Journal of abnormal child psychology · 2017Article
- Emotion dysregulation and autonomic responses to film, rumination, and body awareness: Extending psychophysiological research to a naturalistic clinical setting and a chemically dependent female sample.Psychophysiology · 2017Article
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
aimsDysfunction of physiological regulation systems may underlie the disrupted emotional and self-regulatory processes among people with substance use disorder (SUD). This paper reviews evidence as to whether or not respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA), as a psychophysiological index of emotional regulation, could provide useful information in treatment-outcome research to provide insights into recovery processes.
methodsWe reviewed the use of RSA in clinical research and studies on SUD treatment. Search terms for the review of RSA in clinical research included respiratory sinus arrhythmia, heart rate variability, vagal, cardiac vagal control, psychophysiology, intervention, treatment, mindfulness, mind-body, mental health, substance use, chemical dependence, regulation and emotion regulation. For the review of RSA in intervention studies, we included only those that provided adequate description of psychophysiological methods, and examined RSA in the context of an intervention study.
resultsRSA appears to be able to provide an index of self-regulatory capacity; however, it has been little used in either intervention or treatment research. Of the four intervention studies included in this review, all were mindfulness-based interventions. Two studies were with substance-using samples, and both showed pre-post increases in RSA and related improved substance use outcomes. Two of the three studies were randomized controlled trials (RCTs), and both showed significant increases in RSA in the experimental compared to comparison condition.
conclusionRespiratory sinus arrhythmia may be a useful index of emotional regulation in people with substance use disorder, and a potential measure of underlying mechanisms for SUD treatment studies, particularly mindfulness-based interventions.
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