Physiological Stress Response in a Simulation Exercise of Demonstration Security "Research of Pulse Dynamics, ?-amylase Level, and Salivary Cortisol Level at Various Conditions of Working Climate and Methods of the Resting Phase"

Abstract

This research aimed to evaluate whether the exercise pattern was still in the normal range of the body tolerance and assessed the effectiveness of the restingmethod during the simulation exercise of demonstration security by digging deeper on physiological stress response (pulse, ?-amylase, and salivary cortisol), and to know the effect of working climatic conditions. The method used was a quasi-experimental (modification of pretest and posttest control group design)applied to 33 people (total sample)divided into 3 groups where each group consisted of 11 people. Those groups were group A (treatment: not given a resting phase during the simulation exercise of demonstration security), group B (control 1: method of sitting when resting phase), and group C (control 2: methodof standing when resting phase).

Simulation exercise of demonstration securitywas carried out in two working climatic conditions (simulation time), those were the first day at 08:10 to 10:40 am, and two hours later at 12:15 to 03:15 am.