Gambaran Tinggi Badan Sebelum Tidur Dan Setelah Bangun Pagi Pada Mahasiswa Fakultas Kedokteran Unsrat Manado

Abstract

: Anthropometry is a measurement of the parts of human body. Nowadays there are so many studies and theories about anthropometry. One of them is difference between measurement of morning body height and evening body height. People should be taller in the morning than in the evening. This study's goal is to obtain the description of human body height at different measurement time, by the time after morning wake-up and before sleep in the night from the students at Medical Faculty of Sam Ratulangi University in Manado. This study is a descriptive study with the cross-sectional approach. Samples were taken by purposive sampling. The amount of sample was calculated based on Slovin formula, with the total amount of sample is 75 people. The result showed that there is a body height step-up when the body height is measured after morning wake-up than before night sleep. The average of man's body height step-up is 1.5 cm height and woman's body height step-up is 1,6 cm height. T-test showed that there is a significant difference of body height between before sleep and after morning wake up with the value of p<0.01. Conclusion: The research can be concluded that there is a significant difference between before night sleep and after morning wake-up body height, in which the height step-up happens in the morning than in the evening