ArticleNeuropsychobiology2023
Heart Rate Variability for Evaluating Psychological Stress Changes in Healthy Adults: A Scoping Review.
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Artificial Intelligence and Mindfulness Meditation: Innovative Methods to Reduce Stress Amongst Medical School Students
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81 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Biological Markers of Burnout Severity: A Systematic Review.Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress · 2026Pooled it
- The physiological cost of coping: a systematic review and meta-analysis on discrimination and heart rate variability.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2026Pooled it
- Heart rate variability and overtraining in soccer players: A systematic review.Physiological reports · 2025Pooled it
- Impact of Prescribed and Self-Selected Music Interventions on Stress, Sleep, Heart Rate Variability, and Brain Connectivity in Surgeons Using 7-Tesla Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Wearable Actigraphy: Multimodal Feasibility Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR formative research · 2026Trial
- Effects of heat-treatedFrontiers in nutrition · 2026Trial
- Acute Psychophysiological Effects Of 4-7-8 And Nadi Shodhana Breathing: A Randomized Crossover Study.Applied psychophysiology and biofeedback · 2026Article
- A reporting checklist for human and animal heart rate variability research.Pflugers Archiv : European journal of physiology · 2026Review
- Patient Perspectives to Inform Co-creation of Wearable-Derived Digital Biomarkers for Early Flare Detection and Management in IBD: A Survey-Based Study.Digestive diseases and sciences · 2026Article
- Biopsychosocial phenogroups in an urban population with coronary artery disease and their associations with adverse cardiovascular events.European heart journal open · 2026Article
- Effects of a Smartphone-Based Mindfulness Intervention on Momentary Stress Among First Responders: a Micro-Randomized Trial.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2026Article
- ABMA: An Attention-Based Morphology-Aware Framework for Automated 12-Lead ECG Arrhythmia Classification.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Heart rate variability and autonomic function in health professions students: Associations with academic stress and lifestyle factors.Physiological reports · 2026Article
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- Digital Health Monitoring and Intervention Suite for Stress in Frontline Nurses: Prospective Cohort Trial.JMIR formative research · 2026Article
- Heart Rate Variability and Body Motion as Digital Biomarkers of Task Workload During Military En Route Critical Care Simulations.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Autonomic Non-Responsiveness in HRV Biofeedback: A Narrative Conceptual Review and Future Directions for AI-Guided Closed-Loop Adaptive Systems.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2026Review
- Enhancing Physiological Complexity Through Mindfulness: A Wearable-Based Intervention for First Responders and Their Partners.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Elevated blood pressure variability links cardiac autonomic dysfunction to complex arrhythmias in hypertension.Clinical autonomic research : official journal of the Clinical Autonomic Research Society · 2026Article
- Artificial Intelligence in the Assessment of Heart Rate Variability as an Instrument to Understand the Connection Between Psychologic and Psychiatric Conditions and the Heart.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Mindfulness-based intervention alters nonlinear heart rate variability in a pilot study.Discover mental health · 2026Article
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Abstract
The utility of heart rate variability (HRV) for characterizing psychological stress is primarily impacted by methodological considerations such as study populations, experienced versus induced stress, and method of stress assessment. Here, we review studies on the associations between HRV and psychological stress, examining the nature of stress, ways stress was assessed, and HRV metrics used. The review was performed according to the PRISMA guidelines on select databases. Studies that examined the HRV-stress relationship via repeated measurements and validated psychometric instruments were included (n = 15). Participant numbers and ages ranged between 10 and 403 subjects and 18 and 60 years, respectively. Both experimental (n = 9) and real-life stress (n = 6) have been explored. While RMSSD was the most reported HRV metric (n = 10) significantly associated with stress, other metrics, including LF/HF (n = 7) and HF power (n = 6) were also reported. Various linear and nonlinear HRV metrics have been utilized, with nonlinear metrics used less often. The most frequently used psychometric instrument was the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (n = 10), though various other instruments have been reported. In conclusion, HRV is a valid measure of the psychological stress response. Standard stress induction and assessment protocols combined with validated HRV measures in different domains will improve the validity of findings.
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