Assessment of Stress Level of Young Undergraduates Before and After a Degree Examination Using Heart Rate Variability Analysis

A. Obi, E. O. Nwobodo, U. Dimkpa, S. O. Maduka and E. Fintan
Additional contact information
A. Obi: Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nigeria
E. O. Nwobodo: Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nigeria
U. Dimkpa: Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nigeria
S. O. Maduka: Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nigeria
E. Fintan: Enugu State University of Technology, Nigeria

European Journal of Medical and Health Sciences, 2021, vol. 3, issue 5, 1-6

Abstract: This study aimed at assessing the value of heart rate variability (HRV) as a stress indicator before and after a final re-sit exam among healthy sixth grade medical students. Fifty participants were recruited for the study (test group, n = 30; control group, n = 20). Each participant was examined for 5 minutes pre and post exam periods using the Heartmath proprietary protocol. EmWave equipment was used to detect, record and analyze the HR and to plot out the variability in discrete percentages for low, medium and high coherences. Results indicated that mean percentage coherence score was significantly higher in the test group (p

Keywords: Cardiac coherence; heart rate variability; pre and post-examinations; stress (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://eu-opensci.org/index.php/ejmed/article/view/41008 Abstract page (text/html)
https://eu-opensci.org/index.php/ejmed/article/download/41008/9359 Full text (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:epw:ejmed0:v:3:y:2021:i:5:id:41008

DOI: 10.24018/ejmed.2021.3.5.1008

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in European Journal of Medical and Health Sciences from European Open Science
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Support ().