Mental Stress on Blood Pressure and Heart Rate

ronakm · Post by **ronakm** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 2:26 pm

Do you have and suggestions for elaborating further on the experiment of "The Effect of Mental Stress on Blood Pressure and Heart Rate?" I am looking to add on or alter my project.

Thank You

shijun · Post by **shijun** » Mon Oct 04, 2004 4:04 pm

Hi Ronakm,

How are you going to set up the condition of "mental stress?" And how are you going to make sure that the blood pressure and heart rate variations of your test subjects come directly from your "mental stress" condition?

Shijun
Science Buddies Staff

deleted-2131 · Post by **deleted-2131** » Mon Oct 04, 2004 5:08 pm

Ronakm,

The idea is excellent, but it is nearly impossible to have enough controls in place to do this experiment accuratly. To many variables are out of your control. Also, each person responds differently to stress. "Mental Stress" is to vague. Every person will react differently. I would urge you to consider a different question, unless you can ensure proper controls!

julieannb · Post by **julieannb** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 1:48 am

yah! i totally agree.
beside, is it not against the ethics of research if you are going to use humans to experiment on mental stress...? and being "stressed" is quite relative!

julie

Plasmolysis · Post by **Plasmolysis** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 6:25 pm

Yeah

it doesn't make sense!! It's definetly a [/b] bad [/b] Project idea

Mental Stress on Blood Pressure and Heart Rate

Is "The Effect of Mental Stress on Blood Pressure and Heart" a good project for high school?

Mental Stress on Blood Pressure and Heart Rate

Controls of Project

yeah