Electrocardiogram, skin conductance and respiration from spider-fearful individuals watching spider video clips

This project contains electrocardiogram, skin conductance and respiration as
raw data (unfiltered, unprocessed) recorded from consented, spider-fearful
individuals using the wearable BITalino biosignal measurement device (PLUX -
Wireless Biosignals S.A., Lisbon, Portugal) with the sampling rate set to 100
Hz per channel having 10-bit resolution.

All subjects were introduced to the exposure procedure and rationale that is
mainly based on the principles of the one-session exposure treatment. The main
focus of this study was to investigate if the use of an HRV biofeedback
intervention could be a promising therapeutic add-on to exposure therapy for
specific phobias. Biosignals were collected at the Saarland University
(Germany) from July 2017 to July 2018, and there are 57 subjects in total.

The dataset may support studies on mental health and psychophysiology related
to other anxiety disorders, such as fear of flying, social phobia and
posttraumatic stress disorder.