The Potential of Heart Rate Variability Monitoring for Mental Health Assessment in Top Wheel Gymnastics Athletes: A Single Case Design

Abstract

2001). Assessing these physical and mental stressors may help prevent low performance, decreased mental health, burn-out, and drop-outs. However, these assessments vary widely among individuals, and stressors and influencing factors vary among individual athletes, indicating that the optimal assessment index has not yet been established.The main tool used to assess mental health and stress is a questionnaire-based method to evaluate the degree of congruence with one's own psychological state. The advantage of this method is that it provides information quickly. Conversely, psychological indicators are influenced by events at the time of measurement (e.g., diet and training), and thus transient mood can affect the results. In addition, athletes may not accurately complete the questionnaire as the results of mental health and stress measures may affect their evaluation by their supervisors and coaches. Therefore, the questionnaire-based evaluation alone may not accurately assess an athlete's state of stress. Furthermore, the degree of stress is influenced by many individual differences, including gender Nicholls et al., 2009), personality traits , and mental toughness (Kaiseler et al., 2009). To assess the impact of stress on athletes, longitudinal tracking of changes in their mental health Genta Ochi