Comparative Study on the Heart Rate and Blood Pressure of Debre Markose University 3rd Year Nursing and Sport Science Female Students During Rest and Exercise

Abstract

The aim of this study is to determine the association of heart rate (HR) and blood pressure (BP) between Debre Markos University sport science and nursing students at rest time and during exercise. For this study, 40 healthy and volunteer female students were used as the sample of this study from the total of 70 3^rd year nursing and sport science female students. HR and BP was recorded both during rest and exercise after training during step test. In this study, 40.5 cm height steeper, box or bench was used for step test. The duration of the training for step-test exercise was 3-minutes. The investigation was on the parameters of HR, BP, syastolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP), mean arterial pressure (MAP) and recovery HR. The data was analyzed by using simple descriptive analysis. The finding suggested that there is a significant difference in HR and BP in female sport science students both during rest and exercise after training than healthy nursing female students. So, generally as compared to nursing students, sport science students HR and BP had shown a significant difference during rest and exercise.

Keywords: Blood pressure; Exercise; Heart rate

DOI: 10.7176/JTHS/52-03

Publication date: December 31^st 2020