biopsykit.protocols.tsst module

Module representing the Trier Social Stress Test (TSST) protocol.

class biopsykit.protocols.tsst.TSST(name=None, structure=None, **kwargs)

Bases: BaseProtocol

Class representing the Trier Social Stress Test (TSST).

The general structure of the TSST can be specified by passing a structure dict to the constructor.

Up to three nested structure levels are supported:

• 1st level: study part: Different parts of the study where the TSST was conducted, such as: “Pre”, “TSST”, and “Post”.

• 2nd level: phase: Different TSST phases that belong to the same study part, such as: “Preparation”, “Talk”, “Math” (for study part “TSST”) or “Questionnaires”, “Rest” (for study part “Pre”).

• 3rd level: subphase: Different TSST subphases that belong to the same phase.

Parameters

• name (str) – name of protocol or None to use “TSST” as default name. Default: None

• structure (dict, optional) –

  nested dictionary specifying the structure of the TSST study.

  Up to three nested structure levels are supported:

  • 1st level: study part: Different parts of the study where the TSST was conducted, such as: “Pre”, “TSST”, and “Post”.

  • 2nd level: phase: Different TSST phases that belong to the same study part, such as: “Preparation”, “Talk”, “Math” (for study part “TSST”) or “Questionnaires”, “Rest” (for study part “Pre”).

  • 3rd level: subphase: Different TSST subphases that belong to the same phase.

  If a study part has no division into finer phases (or a phase has no division into finer subphases) the dictionary value can be set to None.

• **kwargs –

  additional parameters to be passed to MIST and its superclass, BaseProtocol, such as:

  • saliva_plot_params: dictionary with parameters to style saliva_plot()

  • hr_mean_plot_params: dictionary with parameters to style hr_mean_plot()

  • hr_ensemble_plot_params: dictionary with parameters to style hr_ensemble_plot()

Examples

>>> from biopsykit.protocols import TSST
>>> # Example: TSST study consisting of three parts. Only the TSST part consists of different phases
>>> structure = {
>>>     "Pre": None,
>>>     "TSST": {
>>>         "Preparation": 300,
>>>         "Talk": 300,
>>>         "Math": 300
>>>     },
>>>     "Post": None
>>> }
>>> TSST(name="TSST", structure=structure)

References

Kirschbaum, C., Pirke, K.-M., & Hellhammer, D. H. (1993). The “Trier Social Stress Test” - A Tool for Investigating Psychobiological Stress Responses in a Laboratory Setting. Neuropsychobiology, 28, 76-81. https://doi.org/10.1159/000119004

biopsykit.protocols.plotting module biopsykit.questionnaires package