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. 2021 May 22;18(11):5551. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18115551

Table 3.

Differences among participants’ demographic variables, HRV parameters, and PSQI global score.

Variables HRV Parameters PSQI Global Score
HR SDNN RMSSD TP LF HF LF/HF
Mean (SD) Mean (SD) Mean (SD) Mean (SD) Mean (SD) Mean (SD) Mean (SD) Mean (SD)
Education level
College 76.88 (12.20) 50.28 (19.08) 41.17 (17.91) 2112.40 (1444.95) 912.57 (940.10) 523.17 (404.04) 1.54 (2.22) 10.19 (2.89)
University 82.06 (10.97) 43.15 (15.13) 32.29 (19.57) 1573.42 (950.66) 723.65 (502.34) 540.74 (552.45) 0.3 (0.57) 10.31 (2.23)
t (p) −1.64 (0.692) 1.17 (0.502) 1.37 (0.378) 1.22 (0.491) 1.22 (0.479) 0.36 (0.971) 1.46 (0.430) −0.27 (0.676)
Marital status
Married 79.50 (12.53) 49.27 (14.89) 36.70 (12.48) 1875.49 (1261.64) 606.19 (499.89) 570.78 (438.30) 1.75 (3.66) 10.11 (2.89)
Unmarried 78.50 (11.89) 47.21 (18.95) 38.37 (20.55) 1931.90 (1334.54) 919.83 (876.92) 516.45 (468.25) 1.10 (0.71) 10.26 (2.82)
t (p) 0.25 (.803) 0.34 (0.733) −0.26 (0.792) −0.12 (0.898) −1.17 (0.246) 0.35 (0.724) 1.04 (0.558) −0.48 (0.961)
Number of children
None 78.90 (11.77) 48.16 (18.83) 38.54 (19.99) 1992.42 (1362.31) 902.32 (860.17) 509.08 (451.66) 1.38 (2.02) 10.28 (2.85)
1 87.33 (17.61) 29.15 (6.02) 23.66 (6.85) 817.91 (430.06) 207.44 (114.01) 440.82 (205.35) 0.36 (0.14) 9.73 (2.76)
2 71.20 ± (8.28) 55.18 (6.86) 42.18 (11.91) 2120.93 (1025.59) 782.96 (519.77) 813.85 (604.49) 0.78 (0.69) 10.22 (2.86)
F (p) 1.27 (0.295) 1.40 (0.254) 0.66 (0.580) 0.89 (0.475) 0.69 (0.449) 0.86 (0.559) 0.39 (0.467) 0.50 (0.671)
Shift work
Yes 78.98 (12.07) 47.37 (18.21) 37.67 (19.13) 1876.98 (1315.74) 816.85 (814.07) 531.20 (466.97) 1.23 (1.90) 10.24 (2.86)
No 73.00 (7.07) 55.86 (5.44) 45.25 (7.70) 2911.54 (124.17) 1509.48 (171.66) 488.5 (12.41) 1.86 (0.02) 10.00 (2.80)
t (p) −0.69 (0.493) 0.65 (0.517) 0.55 (0.582) 4.94 ** (<0.01) 4.10 ** (0.018) −0.12 (0.899) 0.46 (0.643) 0.71 (0.834)

HR: heart rate; SDNN: standard deviation of normal to normal HRV; RMSSD: root mean square of the successive difference in HRV; TP: total power HRV; LF: low-frequency HRV; HF: high-frequency HRV; LF/HF: low-frequency power to high-frequency power ratio; SD: standard deviation.