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. 

本项研究包含未经滤波和处理的原始心电图、皮肤电导和呼吸数据，这些数据由同意参与研究的蜘蛛恐惧症患者通过可穿戴的 BITalino 生物信号测量设备（PLUX – 无线生物信号股份有限公司，里斯本，葡萄牙）采集，采样频率设置为每通道100Hz，分辨率为10位。所有受试者均接受了基于单次暴露治疗原则的暴露程序及其理论依据的介绍。本研究的主要目的是探究心率变异性生物反馈干预是否可以作为暴露疗法治疗特定恐惧症的潜在辅助治疗方法。生物信号于2017年7月至2018年7月期间在德国萨尔兰大学采集，总计有57名受试者。该数据集可能支持研究心理健康和生理心理学相关于其他焦虑障碍的研究，例如飞行恐惧症、社交恐惧症以及创伤后应激障碍。