Trial reportApplied psychophysiology and biofeedback2025
Changes in Negative Emotions Across Five Weeks of HRV Biofeedback Intervention were Mediated by Changes in Resting Heart Rate Variability.
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- Resonance frequency versus fixed 0.1 Hz breathing in HRV biofeedback: a four-week randomized comparison.Scientific reports · 2026Trial
- Examining the Effectiveness of Breathwork to Improve Resilience and Psychological Wellbeing While Reducing Anxiety, Depression, Stress, and Insomnia in Paramedicine Students: A Single-Blind Randomised Controlled Trial.Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress · 2026Trial
- The Qur'anic heart and converging evidence from contemporary cardiac science: From qalb to cardioception.Journal of Taibah University Medical Sciences · 2026Review
- Detecting cognitive impairment and psychological well-being among older adults.Machine learning. Health · 2026Article
- ICT training with wearable devices to enhance emotional communication and musicality in vocal education.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- One-Week Home-Based HRV Biofeedback with Supervised Sessions Versus Passive Relaxation: Effects on Autonomic, Sensorimotor Functions and Kata Performance in Eastern Martial Arts Athletes.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
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- Improving the functional status of young boxers in the preparatory period of training with biofeedback.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Designing Light for Emotion: A Neurophysiological Approach to Modeling Affective Responses to the Interplay of Color and Illuminance.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The A52 Breath Method: A Narrative Review of Breathwork for Mental Health and Stress Resilience.Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress · 2025Review
- Heart Rate Variability Predicts Therapy Outcome in Anxiety Disorders: The Role of Inhibitory Learning.Applied psychophysiology and biofeedback · 2025Article
- The Physiological Component of the BOLD Signal: Impact of Age and Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback Training.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Heart rate variability biofeedback in a global study of the most common coherence frequencies and the impact of emotional states.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The physiological component of the BOLD signal: Impact of age and heart rate variability biofeedback training.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- Evaluating the effectiveness of integrating biofeedback in the treatment of aggressive outbursts (BRET-IA2): A study protocol.PloS one · 2025Article
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Abstract
Resting heart rate variability (HRV) is typically higher in those with better emotional well-being. In the current study, we examined whether changes in resting HRV mediated changes in negative emotions during a 7-week clinical trial of HRV biofeedback. Younger and older adults were randomly assigned to one of two daily biofeedback practices for 5 weeks: (1) engage in slow-paced breathing to increase the amplitude of oscillations in heart rate at their breathing frequency (Osc+); or (2) engage in self-selected strategies to decrease heart rate oscillations (Osc-). We assessed negative emotion using the State Anxiety Inventory (SAI) and Profile of Mood States (POMS). Resting HRV at pre-intervention was significantly higher among those with lower negative emotion scores. Those participants showing greater increases in resting HRV showed greater decreases in negative emotion. In a mediation model with all participants, resting HRV changes significantly mediated the relationship between training performance (i.e., heart rate oscillation during practice sessions) and changes in negative emotion. However, additional analyses revealed this mediation effect was significantly moderated by condition and was only significant in the Osc+ condition. Thus, resting HRV changes mediated how biofeedback to increase amplitude of heart rate oscillations reduced negative emotion.
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