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Thermo-physiological Responses of the Lower Grade Elementary School Children -A Comparison Between Japanese and Korean Children-  

Kim Seong-Hee (Dept. of Clothing & Textiles, Chonnam National University)
Lee Uk-Ja (Dept. of Clothing & Textiles, Keimyung University)
Tamura Teruko (Home Economics, Bunka Women's University)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles / v.29, no.12, 2005 , pp. 1527-1534 More about this Journal
Abstract
In order to clarify the characteristics of the thermo-physiological responses of the child and to understand the influence of the country where the child has grown up on the responses, the thermo-physiological responses of the Japanese children(J group) and the Korean children(K group) were examined. The subject wearing shorts was exposed first to a thermo neutral room$(Ta=28.5^{\circ}C)$ for 1 hour, then transferred to a cold$(Ta=22^{\circ}C)$ or a hot$(Ta=37^{\circ}C)$ room for 1 hour. The experiment was done in the climate chamber of Bunka Women's University in the summer of 1997 for Japan, and in the climate chamber in the Keimyung University in the summer of 1998 for Korea. The subjects consisted of 5 boys and 5 girls aged 7-9 years in Japan and 4 boys and 4 girls aged 7-9 years in Korea. As a result: 1) The rectal temperature increased slightly with a rise in air temperature. K group showed a slightly higher rectal temperature. 2) The skin temperature of the hand and foot decreased conspicuously during cold exposure. It was more in the K group than in the J group. 3) Relative local sweat rates were similar in the two groups at $22^{\circ}C\;and\;28.5^{\circ}C$, while they were considerably different at $37^{\circ}C$. Even perspiration was observed over the whole body in the J group but the perspiration was large in the trunk and low in the extremity in the K group. 4) The heart rate was higher in the J group than in the K group but it increased with the rise of the air temperature in both groups.
Keywords
The lower grade elementary school children; Thermo-physiological responses; Cold room; Heat room;
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