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This study examined the mental and physiological responses to degree of comfort in using sanitary napkins. Two types of sanitary napkins (thin type, thick type) were used by 17 women between menstrual periods. We evaluated the visual analog scale (VAS), heart rate (HR), ratio of low frequency and high frequency (LF/HF) of heart rate variability and salivary chromogranin A (CgA). The results of VAS (subjective evaluation) showed that the thin type napkin was more comfortable than the thick type napkin. The results of HR, LF/HF and salivary CgA (physiological evaluation) indicated that using the thin type napkin did not increase sympathetic activities compared with using the thick type napkin. Those results suggested that comfortable sanitary napkins have less stress mentally and physiologically.
