Research Article

Long-Term Monitoring of Physical Behavior Reveals Different Cardiac Responses to Physical Activity among Subjects with and without Chronic Neck Pain

Table 3

Results from the repeated measures ANOVAs of heart rate variability indices. -values and values are shown for the effects of activity type, location and group, and their interactions.

VariableMain effectsInteraction effects
ActivityLocationGroup Activity × group Location × group Activity × location × group

IBI (ms)49213.6<.00019.2<.00015.1.033.2.071.4.260.7NS
RMSSD (ms)4937.0<.00014.8.013.8.061.9.16 0.9NS0.3NS
LF/HF (ms)4218.4<.0010.1NS2.6.117.6.0012.2.120.2NS

Note: nonsignificant, NS, ; all models are adjusted for type of work.
IBIs, interbeat intervals; RMSSD, root mean square of successive differences between interbeat intervals; LF/HF, ratio between low- and high-frequency spectral power of heart rate variability.