Mission Impossible? Your Blood Pressure

Overview

Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to discover whether or not action movies had an effect on children#s blood pressure. The change in blood pressure was also compared between boys and girls. The expectation was that boys would show a stronger response in blood pressure variation than girls. Methods/Materials In order to test this, permission slips were sent out to parents at Soille San Diego Hebrew Day School to request their approval for student participation as human subjects. After permission slips were collected, each subject was administered a blood pressure reading with a sphygmomanometer prior to an intense two minute video clip of #Mission: Impossible#. Immediately after the film was shown, one additional blood pressure readings were taken. Results The results showed that male student blood pressure levels changed slightly after the movie clip, while the females# had stayed approximately the same. Therefore, it was concluded that, as the hypothesis, the males had a greater stress reaction to the movie, which increased their blood pressure. Conclusions/Discussion The results support the hypothesis. They show that in general children#s blood pressure is affected by action movies. Males showed higher response in blood pressure variation than females.

Competition history

• CSEF 2002 Behavioral Sciences · Entry J0321

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