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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Health Psychol. 2019 Mar;38(3):196–205. doi: 10.1037/hea0000700

Table 2.

Measures of HRV Mean (SD) Change Scores and ANCOVA Results for BBT-CI and HEAL Arms at Pre- and Post-Intervention

BBT-CI HEAL ANCOVA

95% Confidence Interval
95% Confidence Interval
95% Confidence Interval
Pre- and Post-Intervention Differences Mean Change (SD) t Estimate Lower Bound Upper Bound Mean Change (SD) t Estimate Lower Bound Upper Bound Estimate SE p Lower Bound Upper Bound
SDNN 0.41 (6.60) 0.23 0.06 −3.40 4.22 −4.76 (4.78) −2.99 −0.73 −8.43 −1.08 5.56 2.22 <0.01 0.93 10.20
rMSSD 0.94 (5.53) 0.63 0.20 −2.26 4.13 −3.40 (2.72) −3.75 −1.11 −5.49 −1.31 5.18 1.91 <0.01 1.19 9.16
HF Power 0.09 (0.83) 0.40 0.12 −0.39 0.57 −1.04 (1.17) −2.67 −1.33 −1.94 −0.14 1.20 0.42 <0.01 0.33 2.07
LF/HF 0.39 (1.98) 0.73 0.13 −0.75 1.53 1.42 (3.40) 1.25 0.52 −1.20 4.03 −1.00 1.14 0.39 −3.39 1.38
Mean Heart Rate 0.18 (9.71) 0.07 0.01 −5.43 5.79 8.26 (12.89) 1.92 0.91 −1.65 18.16 −7.91 4.68 0.11 −17.67 1.86

Note: SDNN = Standard Deviation of all Normal to R-R Intervals; rMSSD = Root Mean Square of Successive Differences; HF = High Frequency Power; LF/HF = Low Frequency/High Frequency Power Ratio