ArticleEuropean journal of investigation in health, psychology and education2020
Measuring Heart Rate Variability Using Commercially Available Devices in Healthy Children: A Validity and Reliability Study.
Article in European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 59 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
59 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Heart rate variability dynamics in women with urinary incontinence: a systematic review.International urogynecology journal · 2022Pooled it
- The Effects of Palmar Cooling on Repeated Sprinting Ability: A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Trial
- Impact of resistance training intensity on body composition and nutritional intake among college women with overweight and obesity: a cluster randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in public health · 2025Trial
- Daily Parental Positive Experiences Are Linked to Better Daily Parenting Practice Through Reduced Stress and Depressive Mood.Family process · 2026Article
- Association of Novel Oral Appliance Use With Heart Rate Variability in Adolescent Athletes.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2026Article
- Test-Retest Reliability of Heart Rate and Parasympathetic Modulation Indices Across Exercise and Recovery Phases in Athletes.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Article
- Validity of the Polar H10 for Continuous Measures of Heart Rate and Heart Rate Synchrony Analysis.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Weekly Heart Rate Variability and Training Zone Analysis in U-15 Soccer Players: The Predictive Value of Combined Warm-up Protocols for Optimizing Cardiovascular Monitoring.Advanced biomedical research · 2026Article
- Modelling the Balance Axiom in Flow Theory: A Physiological and Computational Approach in STEAM Education.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- An in-flight multimodal data collection method for assessing pilot cognitive states and performance in general aviation.MethodsX · 2025Article
- Resting Heart Rate Variability Measured by Consumer Wearables and Its Associations with Diverse Health Domains in Five Longitudinal Studies.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Rethinking Resting Heart Rate Variability: No Evidence of Association With Self-Regulation and Psychopathology in a Cross-Sectional Study Among Adolescents in Colombia, Nepal, and South Africa.Psychophysiology · 2025Article
- The Effect of the Nasal Airflow Reducer on Parasympathetic Activity in Adults: A Pilot and Exploratory Study.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Article
- Novel Virtual Reality Intervention for Stress Reduction Among Patients With or at Risk for Cardiovascular Disease: Mixed Methods Pilot Study.JMIR cardio · 2025Article
- Validation of nocturnal resting heart rate and heart rate variability in consumer wearables.Physiological reports · 2025Article
- Quality in Question: Assessing the Accuracy of Four Heart Rate Wearables and the Implications for Psychophysiological Research.Psychophysiology · 2025Article
- Test-Retest Reliability and Concurrent Validity of Photoplethysmography Finger Sensor to Collect Measures of Heart Rate Variability.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Reliability and Accuracy of the Fitbit Charge 4 Photoplethysmography Heart Rate Sensor in Ecological Conditions: Validation Study.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2025Article
- Effects of repeated gravity changes during parabolic flight: Evidence of the need to assist space tourists to outer space.PloS one · 2025Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
Abstract
Heart rate variability (HRV) is an accepted method for determining autonomic nervous system activity and cardiovascular risk in various populations. This study assessed the validity and reliability of a commercially available finger photoplethysmography (PPG) system for measuring pediatric HRV in a real-world setting. Sixteen healthy children (4.06 ± 0.58 years) were recruited. The PPG system was compared to the Polar H10 heart rate (HR) sensor validated against ECG (gold standard) for HRV measurement. Seated short-term resting R-R intervals were recorded simultaneously using both systems. Recordings were performed on 3 days at the participants' school. Paired t-tests, effect sizes and Bland-Altman analyses determined the validity of the PPG system. The relative and absolute reliability of both systems were calculated. No HRV parameters were valid for the PPG system. Polar H10 yielded moderate (0.50-0.75) to good (0.75-0.90) relative reliability with R-R intervals and the standard deviation of instantaneous and continuous R-R variability ratio showing the best results (ICCs = 0.84). Polar H10 displayed better absolute reliability with the root mean square of successive differences, R-R intervals and HR showing the lowest values (TEM% < 12%). The use of the Polar H10 and not the PPG system is encouraged for HRV measurement of young children in an educational real-world setting.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.