Mental health care with a heart rate variability monitor and questionnaires for a physical therapist rehabilitating COVID-19 patients

RO Takanori, TAKAHASHI Yuuya, OIKAWA Ou

doi:10.20595/jjbf.51.1_11

[Background] Therapists rehabilitating COVID-19 patients can experience mental health problems such as stress, anxiety, and depressive symptoms due to fear of an unknown virus, and it is useful to use quantitative assessment tools to capture changes in mental health over time.[Methods] The subject was a male physical therapist in his twenties who provided rehabilitation to COVID-19 patients. Heart rate variability analysis using Check My Heart^TM, Profile of Mood States 2nd Edition (POMS2), and Brief Occupational Stress Questionnaire were conducted before and after the rehabilitation for COVID-19. We analyzed the effects that COVID-19 rehabilitation may have on mental health.[Results and discussion] The anxiety score of the Brief Occupational Stress Questionnaire increased from “slightly high” (Stage 4) to “high” (Stage 5), the vigor-vitality score of the POMS2 decreased from 62 (high) to 43 (average), and respiratory rate increased from 6 breaths/min to 10 breaths/min before and after COVID-19 rehabilitation. Low frequency (LF) component decreased, very low frequency (VLF) and Total Power increased after the rehabilitation for COVID-19. We speculate that the heart rate variability components, mainly VLF, were increased by the high stress that had a negative effect on vigor and vitality.

Mental health care with a heart rate variability monitor and questionnaires for a physical therapist rehabilitating COVID-19 patients

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