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. 2021 Jan 22;11:2108. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-81307-3

Table 2.

Mean and standard deviation for task-related variables.

Panel A Healthy comparisons Depression/anxiety Substance use p-value*
Guessing condition
N =  53 221 136
Number of taps 68.15 (29.20) 65.25 (31.24) 65.96 (36.73) 0.847
Number of heartbeats 66.47 (9.13) 70.24 (10.31) 70.42 (10.07) 0.036
Average delay between heartbeat and tap − 0.00 (0.05) 0.00 (0.04) 0.01 (0.06) 0.301
Self-reported difficultya 57.53 (22.86) 53.73 (25.92) 47.96 (25.31) 0.032
Self-reported confidence 32.49 (19.20) 39.03 (21.11) 43.49 (23.27) 0.006
Self-reported intensity 20.51 (16.73) 28.75 (22.71) 36.68 (24.25) < 0.001
Counting accuracy 0.70 (0.33) 0.66 (0.29) 0.63 (0.43) 0.4
Beat-to-tap consistency 0.01 (1.11) 0.44 (1.06) 0.52 (1.47) 0.034
Panel B Healthy comparisons Depression/anxiety Substance use p-value
No-guessing condition
N =  41 182 122
Number of taps 24.41 (22.87) 29.27 (23.64) 35.30 (25.13) 0.02
Number of heartbeats 64.85 (10.07) 69.41 (10.21) 70.27 (10.00) 0.012
Average delay between heartbeat and tap 0.00 (0.15) -0.01 (0.10) 0.00 (0.07) 0.732
Self-reported difficulty 65.93 (27.48) 63.64 (29.86) 54.42 (29.43) 0.014
Self-reported confidence 33.76 (24.64) 39.62 (27.17) 40.71 (25.92) 0.338
Self-reported intensity 24.02 (19.31) 30.59 (25.77) 36.20 (26.26) 0.019
Counting accuracy 0.36 (0.28) 0.40 (0.30) 0.47 (0.31) 0.045
Beat-to-tap consistency 0.56 (2.23) 0.38 (1.68) 0.48 (1.75) 0.79
Panel C Healthy comparisons Depression/anxiety Substance use p-value
Breath hold condition
N =  36 169 113
Number of taps 32.72 (21.73) 31.45 (24.64) 38.51 (24.79) 0.056
Number of heartbeats 68.72 (9.74) 70.67 (10.35) 73.26 (11.03) 0.038
Average delay between heartbeat and tap 0.01 (0.12) 0.01 (0.11) 0.01 (0.08) 0.929
Self-reported difficulty 49.17 (26.49) 54.37 (25.04) 42.16 (27.55) 0.001
Self-reported confidence 47.47 (25.57) 50.40 (24.93) 52.09 (24.76) 0.614
Self-reported intensity 42.58 (27.33) 47.18 (27.55) 50.94 (27.29) 0.242
Counting accuracy 0.47 (0.28) 0.41 (0.27) 0.49 (0.28) 0.037
Beat-to-tap consistency 1.58 (2.46) 0.66 (1.66) 0.68 (1.17) 0.007
Panel D Healthy comparisons Depression/anxiety Substance use p-value
Tone condition
N =  53 220 135
Number of taps 77.68 (1.52) 77.54 (4.22) 79.24 (25.10) 0.557
Number of heartbeats 65.45 (10.66) 71.06 (10.34) 70.45 (10.15) 0.002
Average delay between tone and tap 0.01 (0.09) 0.00 (0.07) -0.01 (0.06) 0.298
Self-reported difficulty 18.57 (16.15) 23.65 (21.21) 27.19 (23.13) 0.039
Self-reported confidence 76.91 (14.45) 75.66 (18.45) 74.33 (18.91) 0.643
Self-reported intensity 85.25 (13.89) 83.64 (16.70) 79.53 (18.18) 0.038
Counting accuracy 0.99 (0.02) 0.99 (0.05) 0.94 (0.32) 0.068
Beat-to-tap consistency 9.02 (3.51) 8.63 (3.48) 7.72 (4.20) 0.037

*p-values correspond to the results of ANOVAs comparing the three groups.

aHigher values indicate greater difficulty.