Entraînement à faire face au stress professionnel pour les personnes avec un retard intellectuel : une étude pilote

The benefits of training in cardiac coherence affect the entirety of our study participants: they are psychological (reduction of perceived stress: n = 10), physiological (increased RMSSD: n = 11; increased pNN50: n = 11; increase pNN50 and RMSSD: n = 9) or both combined (n = 5). Together, our results indicate that the population with intellectual disabilities seems particularly receptive to learning cardiac coherence and are also sensitive to its benefits. Their subjective perception of stress is particularly related to the strengthening of inhibitory activity of the parasympathetic autonomic nervous system. Thus, our results allow us to confirm the possible effect of the introduction to cardiac coherence for subjects with intellectual disability.