caa a22 4500 606203958 CHVBK 20210128101000.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10484-015-9276-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10484-015-9276-y Sarabia-Cobo C. University of Cantabria, Santander, Cantabria, Spain aut Heart Coherence: A New Tool in the Management of Stress on Professionals and Family Caregivers of Patients with Dementia [Elektronische Daten] [C. Sarabia-Cobo] We describe a stress management intervention intended to reduce the damage and stress impact on the heart physiology and function of a group of caregivers (professional and non-professional) who work with patients with dementia. The intervention consisted in applying heart coherence techniques in a population of 72 caregivers of patients with dementia (42 professional and 29 non-professional caregivers) who had high scores in heart stress and burden tests. Six months after the training they were able to generate appropriate patterns of heart coherence, with a statistically significant decrease in their heart overload. We conclude that training in techniques of heart coherence and positive psychology had effective results on the stress management of the participant caregivers. This was a simple, inexpensive technique with lasting results. To our knowledge this is the first research in Spain studying the application of heart coherence techniques to caregivers of people with dementia. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2015 Caregivers nationallicence Nursing nationallicence Dementia nationallicence Stress nationallicence Biofeedback nationallicence Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 40/2(2015-06-01), 75-83 1090-0586 40:2<75 2015 40 10484 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10484-015-9276-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10484-015-9276-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Sarabia-Cobo C. University of Cantabria, Santander, Cantabria, Spain aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 40/2(2015-06-01), 75-83 1090-0586 40:2<75 2015 40 10484