Table 3 Change in the heart rate variability of family caregivers
Familygroup | |||||||||||
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n= 37 | |||||||||||
Hand holding | Beside | Maineffect of Time course | Main effect of Trial | Interaction Effect | BonferroniPostHocTests | ||||||
Characteristic | mean | SD | mean | SD | Fscore | pvalue | Fscore | pvalue | Fscore | pvalue | Trial |
SDNN | |||||||||||
Before | 33.3 | (15.5) | 37.1 | (18.0) | 0.177 | 0.674 | 2.088 | 0.151 | 7.669 | 0.006 | p=0.351 |
During | 42.6 | (22.5) | 30.3 | (15.7) | p=0.003 | ||||||
LF | |||||||||||
Before | 544.1 | (530.9) | 738.0 | (745.3) | 0.384 | 0.536 | 0.013 | 0.910 | 4.917 | 0.028 | p=0.128 |
During | 765.6 | (858.7) | 463.3 | (410.0) | p=0.111 | ||||||
HF | |||||||||||
Before | 521 | (570.3) | 456.1 | (544.7) | 0.391 | 0.533 | 2.348 | 0.128 | 0.599 | 0.440 | |
During | 533.7 | (568.6) | 336.5 | (327.5) | |||||||