Abstract
Objectives:
This study aims to introduce a device, which has been widely used to train the personnel recruited for naval missions in frigates, used as a motion sickness detector in our study. We also compared the findings of the motion sickness patients to the normal population.
Methods:
Thirty adult male personnel were included. Sea intensity between level 1 and level 5 was simulated, and the parasympathetic and physical findings of the personnel were recorded.
Results:
The mean age was 22.6 ± 3.4. During level 2 intensity, 4 personnel (13.33%); level 3, 5 personnel (16.66%); level 4, 12 personnel (40%); and level 5, 9 personnel (30%) demonstrated motion sickness symptoms.
Conclusions:
Besides training purposes, these simulators could be helpful to identify motion sickness disease in the targeted personnel before naval missions.
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