Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia, a Biofeedback technique as a Biobehavioral approach for anxiety symptoms.

Anxiety is a feeling of instability such as fright that can be mild or acute. Anxiety being shown have a strong relationship to emotional & behavioural problems, thereby lack of selfcare having unhealthy lifestyle are risk factors for anxiety among younger generation. Untreated anxiety can have a notable impact on cognitive performance and academic achievement. When individuals experience chronic anxiety, then often remain in a high alertness, which can lead to increased levels of stress hormone called cortisol. High levels of cortisol can affect the cognitive function. Heart Rate Variability (HRV) is a time interval between heart beats which is a maker of one’s wellbeing. Individuals who having anxiety are characterized by chronically low HRV status. HRV self-measurement is simple to use and practice tool which is guided by timed breathing that allows for an essential identification of resonance frequency to maximize personal HRV training. By using HRV biofeedback training, the HRV will increases in people with anxious symptoms, and it will also reduce cortisol levels. By correcting the feedback loop, we try to reduce the anxious symptoms and thereby also see whether there is improvement in the cognition function. Volunteers would be screened using Zung Anxiety scale self-assessment tool. The volunteers with anxiety scale scoring above 45 will be taken into the study and would be randomized into Intervention and Non-intervention groups. Here the Non-intervention group acts as a control group with anxious symptoms.  Both the groups to have baseline parameters for HRV and cognition test.  It will take approximately 1 h