Association of Heart Rate and Heart-Rate Variability with Scores on the Emotion Profile Index in Patients with Acute Coronary Heart Disease

Čatipović-Veselica, Katija; Amidžić, Vjekoslav; Durijancek, Josip; Kozmar, Damir; Šram, Miroslav; Glavaš, Blanka; Catipovic, Branimir

doi:10.2466/pr0.1999.84.2.433

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“…This finding highlights how critical it is to understand the unique nature of our patients’ predispositions and psychosocial needs. Although we are unaware of any previous studies that may have examined the relationship between introversion and incidence of arrhythmias, our findings do support research that links characteristics of introversion (such as timidity and behavioural inhibition) to greater ANS arousal, unstable angina and infarction during hospitalization for acute coronary artery disease 21,22 . People who are introverted typically cope with the overstimulation they feel in social situations by avoidance of or withdrawal from those situations.…”

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confidence: 59%

“…Thus, assessment of introversion is another index of sensory vulnerability that has been linked to greater ANS arousal and anxiety in dealing with the environment 20,21 . Related personality traits (such as timidity) have been correlated specifically with a greater incidence of unstable angina and infarction during hospitalization of patients with acute coronary heart disease 22 . Self reporting of one’s own degree of emotional responsiveness to stimulation is also used to index vulnerability.…”

Section: Background and Study Rationalementioning

confidence: 99%

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Predictors of cardiac patients’ psychophysiological responses to caregiving

Weiss

Puntillo

2001

Int J of Nursing Practice

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Patients who are hospitalized for treatment of cardiac problems are at risk from life-threatening cardiovascular changes related to autonomic nervous system (ANS) arousal. Physical care during hospitalization can increase ANS arousal, yet caregiving is an essential feature of patient treatment. The purpose of this study was to identify the degree to which a patient's vulnerability to sensory stimuli, perceptions of previous caregiving and stressful events during hospitalization may contribute to ANS arousal during caregiving. Fifty-nine patients, who were hospitalized for treatment of coronary artery or valvular disease, received a standardized protocol designed to simulate aspects of physical caregiving. Heart rate, incidence of arrhythmias, blood pressure and state anxiety were measured during the protocol to determine ANS arousal. Regression analyses provided evidence that sensory vulnerability was the most consistent predictor across all indices of arousal during caregiving. Previous caregiving experiences that were perceived as 'negative' by the patient also contributed to higher blood pressure and anxiety. Stressful hospital events involving the family predicted higher blood pressure during caregiving.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 59%

Section: Background and Study Rationalementioning

confidence: 99%

Predictors of cardiac patients’ psychophysiological responses to caregiving

Weiss

Puntillo

2001

Int J of Nursing Practice

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“…The intervals of the power of the LF and HF bands were in accordance with the literature ( 44 , 68 , 69 ). Nevertheless, it is necessary to highlight the absence of any strong agreement in the literature regarding the interval values in macaque monkeys of the LF and HF band power, except for the 0.15 Hz upper limit of the LF band power ( 42 , 43 , 51 ). The power of HF band is due to the activity of the parasympathetic nervous system, therefore, to the vagal tone activation ( 72 ).…”

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The Physiological Effect of Human Grooming on the Heart Rate and the Heart Rate Variability of Laboratory Non-Human Primates: A Pilot Study in Male Rhesus Monkeys

Grandi

Ishida

2015

Front. Vet. Sci.

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Grooming is a widespread, essential, and complex behavior with social and affiliative valence in the non-human primate world. Its impact at the autonomous nervous system level has been studied during allogrooming among monkeys living in a semi-naturalistic environment. For the first time, we investigated the effect of human grooming to monkey in a typical experimental situation inside laboratory. We analyzed the autonomic response of male monkeys groomed by a familiar human (experimenter), in terms of the heart rate (HR) and heart rate variability (HRV) at different body parts. We considered the HRV in both the time (SDNN, RMSSD, and RMSSD/SDNN) and the frequency domain (HF, LF, and LF/HF). For this purpose, we recorded the electrocardiogram of two male rhesus monkeys seated in a primate chair while the experimenter groomed their mouth, chest, or arm. We demonstrated that (1) the grooming carried out by a familiar human determined a decrement of the HR and an increment of the HRV; (2) there was a difference in relation to the groomed body part. In particular, during grooming the mouth the HRV was higher than during grooming the arm and the chest. Taken together, the results represent the first evidence that grooming carried out by a familiar human on experimental monkeys has the comparable positive physiological effect of allogrooming between conspecifics. Moreover, since the results underlined the positive modulation of both HR and HRV, the present study could be a starting point to improve the well-being of non-human primates in experimental condition by means of grooming by a familiar person.

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“…(text continues on page 949) Finally, there are a number of ambulatory and PA-manipulating laboratory experimental studies that assessed HR variability (HRV) in order to examine the contribution of parasympathetic (the arousal dampening system) activation to PA-elicited change in cardiovascular response. In general, evidence suggests that PA may be associated with the control of parasympathetic activation; however, the direction of the PA influence on cardiovascular response varied across studies with some finding activation of this arousal dampening system (Bacon et al, 2004;Christie & Friedman, 2004;McCraty, Atkinson, Rein, & Watkins, 1996;McCraty, Atkinson, Tiller, Rein, & Watkins, 1995;McCraty, Barrios-Choplin, Rozman, Atkinson, & Watkins, 1998) and others decreases in the arousal dampening effects (vagal withdrawal;Catipovic-Veselica et al, 1999;Frazier, Strauss, & Steinhauer, 2004). Vagal withdrawal may be a function of mood activation because it occurred with joy and gregariousness but not trust and acceptance in the Catipovic-Veselica et al study, and with a happy movie induction in undergraduates in the Frazier et al study.…”

Section: Physiological Systems Associated With Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Does positive affect influence health?

Pressman

Cohen

2005

Psychological Bulletin

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This review highlights consistent patterns in the literature associating positive affect (PA) and physical health. However, it also raises serious conceptual and methodological reservations. Evidence suggests an association of trait PA and lower morbidity and of state and trait PA and decreased symptoms and pain. Trait PA is also associated with increased longevity among older community-dwelling individuals. The literature on PA and surviving serious illness is inconsistent. Experimentally inducing intense bouts of activated state PA triggers short-term rises in physiological arousal and associated (potentially harmful) effects on immune, cardiovascular, and pulmonary function. However, arousing effects of state PA are not generally found in naturalistic ambulatory studies in which bouts of PA are typically less intense and often associated with health protective responses. A theoretical framework to guide further study is proposed.Keywords: positive affect, mortality, morbidity, health, emotions A cheerful heart is good medicine.-Proverbs 17:22Self-help books, popular magazines, and Sunday newspaper supplements have suggested for years that positive affect (PA) can improve people's health. However, this hypothesis has been relatively ignored in research on psychological predictors of health. For example, a search of PsycINFO revealed that there are over 20 times more studies on depression and health than there are on happiness and health. Although the recent interest in "positive psychology" has focused attention on the potential benefits of positive feelings (e.g., Seligman & Csikszentmihalyi, 2000), there has been little critical discussion of the evidence linking PA to physical health. In this article, we review the literature examining the association between measures of PA and markers of physical health status, examine the conceptual and methodological weaknesses in the existing literature, and discuss how PA could get "under the skin" to influence health. PAWe define PA as the feelings that reflect a level of pleasurable engagement with the environment (Clark, Watson, & Leeka, 1989) such as happiness, joy, excitement, enthusiasm, and contentment. These can be brief, longer lasting, or more stable traitlike feelings. Although some use the terms affect, mood, and emotion to distinguish duration, these uses are not applied consistently in the literature, and thus we use these terms interchangeably. We, however, distinguish between studies using measures that assess more stable disposition-like PA, which we refer to as trait PA, and those measuring or manipulating relatively short-term bouts of positive emotions, which we refer to as state PA.To date, reviews examining associations between positive psychological constructs and health outcomes have been broad in scope, including traits such as self-esteem, extraversion, purpose, mastery, and optimism along with PA (Lyubomirsky, King, & Diener, 2005;Ryff, 2003;Salovey, Rothman, Detweiler, & Steward, 2000;Zautra, 2003). Hence, it has been difficult to separate t...

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Association of Heart Rate and Heart-Rate Variability with Scores on the Emotion Profile Index in Patients with Acute Coronary Heart Disease

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References 26 publications

Predictors of cardiac patients’ psychophysiological responses to caregiving

Predictors of cardiac patients’ psychophysiological responses to caregiving

The Physiological Effect of Human Grooming on the Heart Rate and the Heart Rate Variability of Laboratory Non-Human Primates: A Pilot Study in Male Rhesus Monkeys

Does positive affect influence health?

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