Characterizing The Association Of Mobile Skin Conductance And Ambulatory Heart Rate On Ptsd Symptom Clusters

Increased psychophysiological reactivity to stress is a defining feature of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). While various stress-inducing tasks are available, they can be time-consuming and difficult to implement in the resource-constrained settings often found in low-and middle-income countries. Thus, the aim of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of using ambulatory heart rate (HR) and mobile skin conductance level (SCL) during a standard trauma interview (STI) in predicting PTSD symptom severity among Vietnamese young men who have sex with men (YMSM).