著者

木村 美可 河野 麻衣 中明 初予 鈴木 めぐみ 神川 康子 矢田 幸博

出版者

日本生理人類学会

雑誌

日本生理人類学会誌 (ISSN:13423215)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.16, no.1, pp.1-7, 2011-02-25 (Released:2017-07-28)

参考文献数

20

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This study examined the mental and physiological responses to degree of comfort in using sanitary napkins. During menstrual period two types of napkins (thin type, thick type) were used by 8 women each. The indexes were 5 point scale, heart rate (HR), ratio of low frequency and high frequency (LF/HF) of heart rate variability and salivary chromogranin A (CgA). The results of 5 point scale (subjective evaluation) showed the thin type napkins were more comfortable than the thick type napkins. The results of LF/HF and CgA (physiological evaluation) indicated that sympathetic activities were lower in the thin type napkin users than in the thick type napkin users. From these results we concluded that using comfortable napkins have less mental and physiological stress.