{"title":"An exploration of the association of heart rate variability with daily stress and sleep in postpartum women","authors":"Iris A. Lesser, Cynthia J. Thomson","doi":"10.1016/j.wcn.2025.01.001","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Heart rate variability (HRV) may provide feedback to post-partum women regarding need for recovery. We explored the associations between daily supine resting HRV and perceived stress and sleep quality using repeated measures correlation (<em>r</em><sub><em>rm</em></sub>) between paired outcomes across two weeks. Repeated measures correlation between HRV and sleep quality, and between HRV and perceived stress were not significant. There was a significant correlation between sleep quality and stress across the two weeks, <em>r</em><sub>rm</sub>(297) = −0.412, 95% CI (−0.502, −0.313), <em>P</em> < 0.0001. Additional studies in this population are warranted to determine feasibility of using HRV to indicate sleep quality and stress.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":101283,"journal":{"name":"Women and Children Nursing","volume":"3 2","pages":"Pages 41-42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Women and Children Nursing","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2949751525000014","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Heart rate variability (HRV) may provide feedback to post-partum women regarding need for recovery. We explored the associations between daily supine resting HRV and perceived stress and sleep quality using repeated measures correlation (rrm) between paired outcomes across two weeks. Repeated measures correlation between HRV and sleep quality, and between HRV and perceived stress were not significant. There was a significant correlation between sleep quality and stress across the two weeks, rrm(297) = −0.412, 95% CI (−0.502, −0.313), P < 0.0001. Additional studies in this population are warranted to determine feasibility of using HRV to indicate sleep quality and stress.