Exploring the Regulatory Effects of Ethnomusicology Education on Students’ Autonomic Nervous System with A Focus on the Digital Health Domain

Abstract

In order to study the effect of ethnomusicological education on the regulation of students’ autonomic nervous system, this paper focuses on the digital health domain and selects parameters such as the variability of students’ autonomic nervous system central rate variability by measuring their heart rate variability. It is used as an objective evaluation index to understand the status of their autonomic nervous system function and to analyze its influencing factors. To provide a scientific basis for improving the autonomic function of students and promoting their physical and mental health, time-domain and frequency-domain analyses of heart rate variability were conducted. The time-domain and frequency-domain analysis of heart rate variability can provide more detailed information about autonomic function, and also compare the music experience factor and the state factor. The results showed relatively small differences between the control and experimental groups of students performing autonomic nervous system conditioning tests. All six indexes were higher than those of the control group students, and the mean index of music teaching increased from 40% to 100% compared to the control group students. Therefore, ethnomusicological education can significantly improve the function of students’ autonomic nervous system regulation, while attenuating the regulation of sympathetic nerves, and promote students’ physical and mental health.