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Table 4 Change in the heart rate variability of patients

From: Effect of handholding on heart rate variability in both patients with cancer and their family caregivers: a randomized crossover study

Patientsgroup

n= 37

 

Hand holding

Beside

Maineffect of Time course

Main effect of Trial

Interaction Effect

Characteristic

mean

SD

mean

SD

Fscore

pvalue

Fscore

pvalue

Fscore

pvalue

SDNN

 Before

24.7

(13.6)

26.0

(11.8)

6.254

0.014

0.009

0.924

0.331

0.566

 During

32.7

(19.0)

30.9

(16.4)

LF

 Before

309.4

(465.1)

253.2

(264.7)

5.729

0.018

0.026

0.872

0.367

0.545

 During

440.0

(511.9)

472.6

(472.6)

HF

 Before

300.2

(470.0)

244.0

(453.6)

3.355

0.069

0.270

0.604

0.036

0.850

 During

430.4

(482.8)

404.2

(495.3)

  1. SDNN standard deviation of inter beat interval, LF low frequency, HF High frequency