Heart Rate Variability as a Clinical Marker in a Population of Anxio-depressive Patients

Tatiana Besse-Hammer

Status: Completed

Conditions: Anxio Depressive Disorder

Treatments: Device: Heart rate monitoring

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04192669

CHUB-PSY-BRUHRV

Details and patient eligibility

About

The heart rate (HR) is regulated by the autonomic nervous system (ANS) and results from a balance between the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) that accelerates the heart rate and the parasympathetic nervous system that slows the HR via the vagus nerve.

Low HRV is linked to poor emotional and cognitive regulation. Values for HRV are generally lower in depressed patients.

The aim of this study is to determine how HRV could be a clinical marker that can be used in routine psychiatry practice in patients with anxio-depressive disorders, to determine the severity of symptoms and the degree of response to treatment.

Enrollment: 44 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients of the CHU Brugmann Hospital with an anxious or depressive disorder

Exclusion criteria

• None

Trial design

44 participants in 1 patient group

Anxio-depressive patients

Description:

Patients with a depressive or anxious disorder going to the Psychiatry Department of the CHU Brugmann Hospital.

Treatment:

Device: Heart rate monitoring