Journal of Japan Society of Nursing Research

This study was conducted to identify by measuring heart rate and blood pressure which activities in showering result in more stress to the cardiovascular system.
Three positions with and without arm work; flexion bending, sitting on a low round chair and arm sustained above the head positions were examined as mimic activities of washing the lower legs and the head with 15 normal subjects.
Significant rise (27.8mmHg) in mean blood pressure from the resting level was already observed in the bending position without arm work for washing the lower legs. In addition, mean blood pressure rose with arm work in either of the three positions.
Mean increases in heart rate from the resting level in the bending and arm sustained positions without arm work were 15.1±8.2 bpm and 20.7±7.3 bpm, respectively while the increase in the sitting position was remarkably lower than in the bending position.
The increases in pressure rate product in the bending position with and without arm work were significantly higher than other positions.
We suggest from these results that the flexion bending position should be noticed as a cause for more stress to the cardiovascular system during showering.

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This study was to examin the relationship between health status and image that 120 women's college students had, and their self-medication in 1986.
Statistical analyses were done using the principle factor solution method with normal varimax rotation for extracting factors of image of drug and X²_Y test for surveying the relationship between health status and image of drug and self-medication.
Main results were summarized as follows;
1. The images of drug that had side-effact and was new promoted better self-medication when one felt ill.
2. A sense of unease about one's health promoted better self-medication on compliance.
3. The following three factors promoted better self-medication on coping with no effect of prescribed medicine (Rx).
(1) being satisfied with one's health.
(2) better H.P.B. doing and
(3) having the images of drug that had side-effect and seemed gloomy.
4. The images of drug that was frequently used and taking drug was unhappy suppressed taking some OTCs in one time.
The images of drug was related to the behavior of self-medication. Especially the two images of drug, the image that drugs have side-effect and the image that taking drugs is undesirable situation, were useful for promorting better self-medication.

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