Table 1: Comparison of time-domain heart rate variability parameters between the active periods | ||||||||
Active period* | Mean RR | SDNN † | RMSSD ‡ | |||||
Mean difference | p value | Mean difference | p value | Mean difference | p value | |||
WBV vs LMWL | 47.07 | 0.01 | 8.60 | 0.002 | 3.16 | 0.39 | ||
WBV vs HMWL | 59.40 | 0.001 | 9.20 | 0.02 | 2.96 | 0.52 | ||
WBV vs WBV.LMWL | 50.20 | 0.01 | 8.73 | 0.009 | 4.49 | 0.29 | ||
WBV vs WBV.HMWL | 50.07 | 0.01 | 6.87 | 0.01 | 0.96 | 0.77 | ||
LMWL vs HMWL | 12.33 | 0.41 | 0.60 | 0.85 | -0.20 | 0.95 | ||
LMWL vs WBV.LMWL | 3.13 | 0.82 | 0.13 | 0.93 | 1.33 | 0.66 | ||
LMWL vs WBV.HMWL | 3.00 | 0.85 | -1.73 | 0.50 | -2.20 | 0.41 | ||
HMWL vs WVB.LMWL | -9.20 | 0.56 | -0.47 | 0.90 | 1.53 | 0.44 | ||
HMWL vs WBV.HMWL | -9.33 | 0.54 | -2.33 | 0.36 | -2.00 | 0.38 | ||
WBV.LMWL vs WBV.HMWL | -0.13 | 0.99 | -1.87 | 0.45 | -3.53 | 0.12 | ||
*WBV: Whole-body vibration, LMWL: Low mental workload, HMWL: High mental workload †SDNN: SD of normal-to-normal intervals, ‡RMSSD: root mean square of the successive differences |