The purposes of this study are to determine differences of body temperature between sublingual, groin and axilla areas and to determine the length of time necessary for temperature taking from 60 women who were student of nursing department, Churgnam National University School of Medicine.
This experiment was conducted from May to July, 1983.
The electric centigrade thermometer was utilized. Three electric centigrade thermometer probes were inserted in tern under groin, axilla and sublingual areas, and these areas were kept closed while probes were inserted.
Temperature readings were taken and recorded at one minute intervals during 10-minute. The temperature was timed using a stopwatch.
The data were statistically analyzed by means of the ANOVA, the 2-way ANOVA and cumulative percentage.
The results obtained were as follows;
1. The average maximum body temperatures in the sublingual area, groin and axilla were 37.10°C, 36.53°C and 36.74°C, respectively.
The difference of three maximum temperatures was not significant (F=0.556, df =2.17, p=0.5745).
2. The time required for maximum body temperature of oral, groin and axillary temperature
were 8.46 minutes, 9.81 minutes and 9.62 minutes.
Out of these results, measuring groin temperature is a recommendable way of measuring body temperature, and the use of electric thermometer for body temperature measurement is not yet significant.
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