“Individual” variables and heart rate control via biofeedback: A review

Heffernan-Colman, Colleen J.; Sharpley, Christopher F.; King, Neville J.

doi:10.1080/00050069208257572

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“…There are many studies of predictors of success in learning how to increase or decrease heart rate (for a review, see Heffernan et al, 1992), but few which have focused upon HRR reduction. Of those which have used HRR reduction as their dependant variable (e.g., Bradley and McCanne, 1981;McCanne, 1983;McKinney and Gatchell, 1982), most had serious methodological limitations, leaving the efficacy of biofeedback training for HRR control open to investigation.…”

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Maintenance and generalizability of laboratory-based heart rate reactivity control training

Sharpley

1994

J Behav Med

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The maintenance over time (4 months) and generalizability (to a work setting) of laboratory-based heart rate reactivity control training was investigated. Forty-three subjects received 5 weeks of biofeedback, imagery, and breathing training and 41 subjects acted as controls. Although there were no significant differences between the reactivities of the control and those of the treatment subjects at any of three pretraining tests, significant differences were noted immediately following training, 7 weeks, and 4 months later, showing maintenance effects. Data collected during work activities on the frequency of reactivity of a magnitude similar to that in the laboratory also showed that treatment subjects had significantly fewer incidents of reactivity than control subjects after training. Followup interviews with treatment subjects indicated that lifestyles were also enhanced in a variety of areas, suggesting that the training had wider benefits. Issues for further research are discussed.

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Maintenance and generalizability of laboratory-based heart rate reactivity control training

Sharpley

1994

J Behav Med

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“…However, even though biofeedback has been a major methodological concomitant of such studies, the investigation of those variables which enhance individuals' ability to increase or decrease their HR on command with biofeedback has been inconclusive. In their detailed review of 37 studies of the various "individual" variables which have been suggested as influencing ability to control HR within biofeedback-assisted protocols (e.g., locus of control, autonomic and cardiac perception, trait anxiety, imagery vividness, gender, personality correlates) Heffernan-Colman, Sharpley and King (1992) noted that there was "disagreement within each subset of studies for the major predictor variables" (p. 37). Those authors concluded that the identification of which individual or procedural factors were most powerful in helping people to learn control of their HR was yet to be accomplished.…”

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