Table 4.

Comparison of the average values obtained by patients and controls in the Psychophysiological Stress Profile (PSP).

	Baseline		Stress		Recovery
	t	p	t	p	t	p
surface Electromyography (sEMG, in µV)	−4.66	<0.001	−2.16	0.019	−4.39	<0.001
Skin Conductance Level/Response (SCL/SCR, in µS)	−4.9	<0.001	−5.66	<0.001	−5.41	<0.001
Heart Rate (HR, in bpm)	4.85	0.013	4.98	0.14	4.5	0.008
Peripheral Temperature (PT, in °C)	−2.31	<0.005	−1.07	<0.001	−2.51	<0.001