Four weeks of trauma-informed yoga intervention and autonomic tone in female veteran and non-veteran college students

Introduction: Female college students (veteran and non-veteran) are exposed to cumulative stressors trauma that may lead an imbalanced autonomic nervous system. Yoga has emerged as efficacious intervention for psychological physical trauma; however, the therapeutic dose of intervening yoga is unknown. Additionally, frequency, duration, type needed achieve a appear be population specific when applied victims. The purpose study was examine whether short-term trauma-informed altered metrics tone assessed by heart rate variability (HRV) in female veteran non-veteran students. Methods: Nine (age: 33 years ± 11, veteran, n = 4, non-veteran, 5) engaged once per week one-hour over four-week intervention. Repeated measures ANOVA were performed on HRV variables lnRMSSD, lnHF, lnLF, LF:HF. Results: Findings indicated no effect measured lnRMSSD (p .116), lnHF .073), lnLF .316), LF:HF .131). Further, acute alterations observed following single session > .05). Conclusion: findings revealed significant or after