• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.12 no.9
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• pp.217-225
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• 2012

The purpose of this study was to identify the effect of auriculotherapy on menstrual cramps, dysmenorrhea and skin resistance variability(SRV) of the female nursing students. This study was a pre-test and post-test with non-equivalent groups design. The subjects were 64 female university students experiencing dysmenorrhea in Cheonan and Gyeongju; 31 for the treatment group and 33 for the sham treatment group. The subjects of the treatment group received auriculotherapy twice a week for 5 weeks and sham treatment group received sham auriculotherapy using tape. The obtained data were analyzed by SPSS/WIN12.0 program. The menstrual cramps, negative emotions about the menstruation and skin resistance in the treatment group was significantly less than in the sham treatment group. However, there were no statistical differences in autonomic nervous system reactions. Based on these results, auriculotherapy could improve the quality of life for dysmenorrhea of female university students. However, further studies are necessary to support the effect of auriculotherapy and the scientific validity of skin resistance variability(SRV).

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37 no.4C
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• pp.283-289
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• 2012

Web-based physiological signal monitoring system can provide appropriate healthcare services to transmit bio-signal processing, analysis of bulk in medical centers. Therefore, we constructed a design of system to analyze effect of cardiac associated auricular acupuncture reflexology based on physiological signals. System to analyze effect cardiac associated auricular acupuncture reflexology, which carried out analysis and measurement of bio-signal to apply cardiac-related biometrics input in biometric image and voice signal. In addition, we also confirmed through statistical analysis actual home healthcare system to performance evaluation of system on subjects 20.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2012.04a
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• pp.900-903
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• 2012

현대사회의 의료 시술 중 부작용이 거의 없으며 배우기 쉬워 일상적으로 널리 사용되고 있는 의료형태를 대체의학이라 한다. 많은 선진국에서 미래형 의료 서비스로 대체의학에 관한 연구를 활발히 진행하고 있다. 대체의학은 종류가 많지만 그 중 귀에 몸의 각 부위가 상응하는 반사점이 있으며 이를 자극하여 치료하는 형태를 이침요법(耳針療法)이라 한다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 이침요법(耳針療法)을 사용하여 폐에 상응하는 이혈 반사점을 자극하였을 때 음성의 변화를 분석하는 실험을 수행하였다. 이를 위해 폐 이혈(耳穴) 자극 전과 후의 음성을 수집하고 기존 연구를 기반으로 폐와 연관성이 있는 음성분석 요소인 발화속도, Intensity 기술을 적용하여 변화 지표를 측정하고 이를 분석하여 이혈요법의 효과를 입증하는 연구를 수행하였다.

• Proceedings of the Safety Management and Science Conference
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• 2012.11a
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• pp.39-48
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• 2012

• Korean Journal of Adult Nursing
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.529-536
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• 2010

Purpose: This study was designed to identify the effect of auriculotherapy on low abdominal pain and dysmenorrhea in school-aged girls. Methods: This design was a pre and post-test with nonequivalent groups. The subjects were 71 girls who were middle school students with dysmenorrheal (35 students for the treatment group and 36 students for the comparison group). The subjects of the treatment group received auriculotherapy once a week for 10 weeks. The comparison group received instruction on auriculotherapy and was requested waiting for the order. Results: The treatment group reported significantly less low abdominal pain than the comparison group. However, there were not statistical differences in reported dysmenorrhea. In future analysis, 60.0% of the treatment group reported more physical comfort, and 45.7% reported more emotional cool down. Conclusion: The finding indicate that auriculotherapy could be effective in decreasing low abdominal pain during menstrual periods. Therefore, auriculotherapy could be an effective nursing intervention for low abdominal pain occurring during mensuration. However, further studies need to be done to support auriculotherapy as effective.

• Korean Journal of Occupational Health Nursing
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• v.28 no.3
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• pp.148-155
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• 2019

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify health problems in clinical nurses through an examination of their auricular acupuncture points. Methods: Data were collected from 90 nurses working in D city. Participants' ears were photographed and their auricular points were analyzed. Data analysis was performed by descriptive statistics and the $x^2$ test. Results: Musculoskeletal problems were the most severe, followed by problems of the digestive, nervous, and reproductive systems, in that order. Furthermore, the average number of health problems was 5.22, with a range of 4 to 6. Leg/foot pain was the highest reported musculoskeletal problem, followed by shoulder and lumbar/back pain. Gastric ptosis was the highest reported digestive problem, followed by indigestion and hypersensitive colitis. Additionally, among participants with gastric ptosis, lumbar pain was significantly high. Conclusion: The results suggest that further research using an auricular points as a diagnosis and treatment point is necessary to improve the health of nurses.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.2812-2818
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• 2013

Medicine such as Korean oriental medicine and alternative medicine is inferior to western medicine in diagnostic skills and treatment regimen but despite going through a lot of in western medicine preference to that is situations. Likewise, in Korean oriental medicine and alternative medicine have been closely linked to that effect not proven scientifically to be solved is regarded as the biggest drawback. In this paper, auricular therapy that is often used in alternative medicine to help strengthen the internal organs function which whether the conduct of stimulating ear is effective or not by applying to ocular inspection of Korean oriental medicine is proposed. For this purpose, lung ear reflex points to stimulate were performed after the right cheek color by measuring stimulation before comparison and analysis of the experiments. In addition, in order to examine this first analysis of the human body to the lungs and the elements of image analysis is to study. Experimental result, derived b value increased to a value of the right cheek and the results by lung ear to stimulate reflex point.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.12 no.12
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• pp.5588-5593
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• 2011

In this paper, measure of change the speech analysis parameter by stimulating ears blood points corresponding to cardiac. To do this, we collected voice of before and after a stimulation corresponding points to ears to select normal heart having 10 subjects. We analyzed changes before and after corresponding points to ear in cardiac to apply Jitter, the second zFormant Frequency Bandwidths related to heart of elements of voice analysis. As a result of us experiment, we were able to analyze correlation of voice with cardiac according to corresponding points to ears decreased values of Jitter, the Second Formant Frequency Bandwidths of 90% of subjects. Finally, the effectiveness of proposed method is demonstrated by several experiments.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.1430-1433
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• 2010

삶의 지표가 상승함에 따라 선진국에서는 건강에 대한 관심도가 높아져 질병이 발생되기 전에 조기에 진단하여 예방하는 건강 패턴이 행해지고 있는 실정이다. 이와 같은 예방 분야를 반영한 것이 대체의학이며 이침 요법은 부작용이 적은 방법으로 널리 사용되고 있다. 이침 요법은 교육과정을 거친 후 자가 진단을 통해 응급처지가 가능한 것으로 실생활에서 손쉽게 이용되고 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 신장에 해당하는 이(耳)혈 상응점을 자극하여 신장과 관련된 음성 요소의 변화를 측정하였다. 이를 위해 신장 이혈 상응점을 자극하기 전과 후의 음성을 수집하여 음성 분석 요소 중 제 1 Formant Bandwidth와 Jitter, Shimmer값을 적용하여 비교, 분석하였다. 결과적으로 신장 이혈 상응점 자극에 의해 성대 진동의 변화율이 낮아져 발음의 정확성을 나타내는 결론을 도출하였다.

• Korean Journal of Adult Nursing
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.436-446
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• 2016

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the effect of auricular acupressure on pruritus and fatigue in hemodialysis patients. Methods: The study design was a randomized control group pre-post test. Initially, forty-four patients were randomly assigned to one of two groups. There was a loss of three participants assigned to the treatment group. The period of data collection was from December 2014 to March 2015. Both groups completed a pre-test. The treatment group received auricular acupressure once a week for ten weeks. Data were collected from the treatment group at two time periods: five weeks and ten weeks following initiation of the treatment protocol. Data were collected from the control group at week 5 and week 10. Data analysis was performed using IBM SPSS Statistics 21.0 program, specifically with the independent t-test and the Repeated Measures of ANOVA. Results: Auricular acupressure was effective in reducing pruritus (F=13.93, p<.001) and fatigue (F=18.33, p<.001). Conclusion: Auricular acupressure is a non-invasive simple method that can be used for the relief of symptoms reported by hemodialysis patients. This treatment modality could be used in several clinical areas.