Improvement of Circadian Rhythm of Heart Rate Variability by Eurythmy Therapy Training

Table 1

Descriptive statistics of day/night time before and day/night time after EYT (mean value ± standard deviation) of HRV indices of day/night time before and day/night time after EYT including significance (𝑃) of differences (*𝑃<0.05, **𝑃<0.01, and ***𝑃<0.001; n.s.: not significant).

Method	Index	Day time before EYT	Night time before EYT	𝑃	Day time after EYT	Night time after EYT	𝑃
HRV	meanNN	719.9645±97.5070	946.1659±110.8942	***	722.7145±97.5392	924.8230±112.5868	***
	sdNN	85.4704±22.0300	81.5635±21.8195	n.s. (0,54)	86.6286±27.7480	74.4476±22.5824	n.s. (0,07)
	ULF	1126.2409±883.6143	845.5170±897.9354	n.s. (0,33)	1147.2612±919.5328	586.1914±557.9539	**
	LF/HF	6.6243±3.6584	5.7644±4.6834	n.s. (0,38)	6.3557±3.1467	5.1150±4.1323	n.s. (0,06)
	LFn	0.8458±0.0612	0.7860±0.1207	n.s. (0,06)	0.8434±0.0590	0.7598±0.1479	*
	HFn	0.1254±0.0612	0.2140±0.1207	n.s. (0,06)	0.1566±0.0590	0.2402±0.1479	*
	(ULF + VLF)/P	0.8695±0.0665	0.8186±0.0994	n.s. (0,07)	0.8648±0.0799	0.7948±0.0915	***
SD	pW232	0.0090±0.0038	0.0113±0.0050	n.s. (0,08)	0.0077±0.0045	0.0132±0.0077	**
	pTH7	2.8261±0.8341	3.5217±1.0388	**	2.9130±0.9493	3.1304±0.9197	n.s. (0,26)
STSD	peak	0.0580±0.0168	0.0661±0.0229	n.s. (0,06)	0.0524±0.0157	0.0693±0.0313	**
MSE	scale 2	1.1177±0.3088	1.2196±0.3020	n.s. (0,30)	1.1318±0.2786	1.3841±0.2733	**
	scale 20	1.5635±0.2595	1.2889±0.4138	**	1.5730±0.3626	1.4349±0.2847	n.s. (0,22)

𝑃: significance of differences: *𝑃<0.05, **𝑃<0.01, and ***𝑃<0.001; n.s.: not significant.