You are viewing the site in preview mode
Skip to main content
|
Parameter
|
Music therapy group
|
Control group
|
|---|
|
Initial Mean ± SD
|
Final Mean ± SD
|
Effect size
|
Initial Mean ± SD
|
Final Mean ± SD
|
Effect size
|
|---|
|
BAI
|
15.10 ± 10.25
|
5.40 ± 4.72*
|
0.519 (M)
|
10.70 ± 8.54
|
6.00 ± 4.94
|
0.319 (S)
|
|
BDI
|
15.70 ± 10.68
|
6.30 ± 5.52*
|
0.483 (S)
|
16.00 ± 17.95
|
10.20 ± 16.26
|
0.163 (S)
|
|
RR intervals
|
718.80 ± 101.73
|
630.70 ± 402.50
|
0.148 (S)
|
770.53 ± 121.14
|
745.95 ± 122.88
|
0.100 (S)
|
|
SDNN (ms)
|
35.01 ± 14.92
|
44.53 ± 12.95*#
|
−0.322 (S)
|
41.35 ± 19.90
|
43.53 ± 22.11
|
− 0.051 (S)
|
|
RMSSD (ms)
|
23.66 ± 10.21
|
36.59 ± 17.58*
|
− 0.410 (S)
|
28.14 ± 15.82
|
31.59 ± 20.07
|
−0.095 (S)
|
|
pNN50 (%)
|
6.08 ± 7.96
|
18.37 ± 17.30*
|
− 0.415 (S)
|
8.85 ± 12.08
|
11.54 ± 17.96
|
− 0.087 (S)
|
|
SD1
|
16.76 ± 7.22
|
25.91 ± 12.45*
|
− 0.410 (S)
|
18.41 ± 12.68
|
22.41 ± 14.34
|
− 0.146 (S)
|
|
SD2
|
46.50 ± 20.16
|
56.95 ± 15.63
|
− 0.278 (S)
|
51.75 ± 30.35
|
58.25 ± 28.32
|
− 0.110 (S)
|
|
DFA α1
|
1.11 ± 0.22
|
1.05 ± 0.35
|
0.102 (S)
|
1.12 ± 0.24
|
1.16 ± 0.23
|
−0.084 (S)
|
|
DFA α2
|
0.94 ± 0.16
|
0.89 ± 0.24
|
0.121 (S)
|
1.05 ± 0.34
|
0.86 ± 0.21
|
0.318 (S)
|
|
VLF (0–0.04 Hz)
|
733.50 ± 774.68
|
823.60 ± 675.78
|
−0.061 (S)
|
1039.20 ± 1026.09
|
943.10 ± 1432.13
|
0.038 (S)
|
|
LF (0.04–0.15 Hz)
|
508.90 ± 433.67
|
630.70 ± 402.50
|
−0.144 (S)
|
504.50 ± 419.49
|
601.30 ± 595.61
|
−0.093 (S)
|
|
HF (0.15–0.4 Hz)
|
565.20 ± 1013.54
|
611.10 ± 462.50
|
−0.029 (S)
|
397.30 ± 331.67
|
435.60 ± 503.28
|
−0.044 (S)
|
|
Total
|
1808.00 ± 1798.51
|
1950.12 ± 1364.49
|
−0.044 (S)
|
1941.20 ± 1660.41
|
1980.00 ± 2200.50
|
−0.009 (S)
|
|
LF/HF
|
1.95 ± 1.14
|
1.85 ± 2.01
|
0.030 (S)
|
2.20 ± 2.23
|
1.88 ± 1.23
|
0.088 (S)
|
|
LF (n.u.)
|
60.14 ± 18.61
|
53.35 ± 21.43
|
0.166 (S)
|
58.38 ± 19.23
|
60.13 ± 14.35
|
−0.051 (S)
|
|
HF (n.u.)
|
39.83 ± 18.62
|
46.65 ± 21.45
|
− 0.167 (S)
|
41.60 ± 19.26
|
39.87 ± 14.35
|
0.050 (S)
|
- SD Standard deviation, BAI Beck Anxiety Inventory, BDI Beck Depression Inventory, RR intervals Intervals between consecutive heartbeats, SDNN Standard deviation of NN intervals, NN intervals Interbeat intervals from which artifacts have been removed, RMSSD Root mean square of successive differences between adjacent RR intervals, pNN50, NN50 count divided by the total number of NN intervals, NN50 Number of successive NN intervals differing more than 50 ms, SD1 Instantaneous beat-to-beat variability, SD2 Continuous beat-to-beat variability, DFA α1 Detrended fluctuation analysis of short-term fractal scaling exponents, DFA α2 Detrended fluctuation analysis of long-term fractal scaling exponents, VLF Very low frequency, LF Low frequency, HF High frequency, (M) Medium effect size [20], (S) Small effect size [20]; *significant at p ≤ 0.05 in intergroup evaluation in the final evaluation using paired sample t-test or Wilcoxon test; # significant at p < 0.05 in intergroup evaluation in the final evaluation using t-test
