• Title/Summary/Keyword: Risk of Mental Disorder Occurrence

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Design and Implementation of a Robot Analyzing Mental Disorder Risks for a Single-person Household Worker through Facial Expression-Detecting System (표정 감지 시스템을 통한 직장 생활을 하는 1인 가구의 정신질환 발병 위험도 분석 로봇 설계 및 구현)

  • Lee, Seong-Ung;Lee, Kang-Hee
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.489-494
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    • 2020
  • We propose to designs and to implements a robot analyzing the risk of occurrence of mental disorder of single-person households' workers through the facial expression-detecting system. Due to complex social factors, the number and proportion of single-person households continues to increase. In addition, contrast to the household of many family members, the prevalence of mental disorder among single-person household varies greatly. Since most patients with mental can not detect the disease on their own, counseling and treatment with doctors are often ignored. In this study, we design and implement a robot analyzing the risk of mental disorder of single-person households workers by constructing a system with Q.bo One, a social robot created by Thecorpora. Q.bo One is consisted of Arduino, ar raspberry pie, and other sensors designed to detect and respond to sensors in the direction users want to implement. Based on the DSM-5 provided by the American Psychiatric Association, the risk of mental disorder occurrence was specified based on mental disorder. Q.bo One analyzed the facial expressions of the subjects for a week or two to evaluate depressive disorder, anxiety disorder. If the mental disorder occurrence risk is high, Q.bo One is designd to inform the subject to counsel and have medical treatment with a specialist.

Preventing Shift Work Disorder in Shift Health-care Workers

  • d'Ettorre, Gabriele;Pellicani, Vincenza
    • Safety and Health at Work
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.244-247
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    • 2020
  • The occurrence of the shift work disorder (SWD) in health-care workers (HCWs) employed in 24/7 hospital wards is a major concern through the world. In accordance with literature, SWD is the most frequent work-related disturb in HCWs working on shift schedules including night shift. In agreement with the Luxembourg Declaration on workplace health promotion (WHP) in the European Union, a WHP program has been developed in a large Hospital, involving both individual-oriented and organizational-oriented measures, with the aim to prevent the occurrence of SWD in nurses working on shifts including night shift. The objective assessment of rotating shift work risk and the excessive sleepiness were detected before and after the implementation of the WHP program, by using the Rotating Shiftwork-questionnaire and the Epworth Sleepiness Scale. The findings of this study showed the effectiveness of the implemented WHP program in minimizing the impact of shift work on workers' health and in preventing the misalignment between sleep-wake rhythm and shift working.

Prevalence and Correlates of Symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders in Korean Older Adults Exposed to Natural Disaster (자연재난 피해 노인의 외상 후 스트레스 장애(PTSD) 발생 관련 요인)

  • Cho, Myong Sun
    • Journal of Korean Public Health Nursing
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    • v.33 no.2
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    • pp.214-227
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    • 2019
  • Purpose: This study examined the socio-demographic factors, the disaster related factors, the physical health related factors and the psychological factors of older adults exposed to natural disaster and these factors may possibly cause the occurrence of PTSD. Methods: A cross-sectional study was designed using the secondary data from the 3rd Disaster Victims Panel Survey (2012-2017). The data from 1,397 disaster victims were analyzed using descriptive statistics and logistic regression analysis. Results: Compared with the younger adult disaster victims, the elderly were more likely to have symptoms of PTSD (15.0% vs. 12.1%). Factors such as the number of years since being exposed to the disaster, anxiety, depression and social adjustment were significantly associated with occurrence of PTSD for both older and younger adults. Female gender was the additional risk factors for the older adults, while marital status, income, having witnessed another person's injury or death, and having lost a home were associated with the occurrence of PTSD. Conclusion: The elderly were more likely to develop PTSD as compared with younger adults. More targeted post-disaster mental health services to the elderly with the symptoms of depressive, anxiety and impaired social adjustments, should be provided to improve their mental health.

A study on interaction effect among risk factors of delirium using multifactor dimensionality reduction method

  • Lee, Jong-Hyeong;Lee, Yong-Won;Lee, Yoon-Seok;Lee, Jea-Young
    • Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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    • v.22 no.6
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    • pp.1257-1264
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    • 2011
  • Delirium is a neuropsychiatric disorder accompanying symptoms of hallucination, drowsiness, and tremors. It has high occurrence rates among elders, heart disease patients, and burn patients. It is a medical emergency associated with increased morbidity and mortality rates. That s why early detection and prevention of delirium ar significantly important. And This mental illness like delirium occurred by complex interaction between risk factors. In this paper, we identify risk factors and interactions between these factors for delirium using multi-factor dimensionality reduction (MDR) method.

An Investigation on Intellectual Structure of Social Sciences Research by Analysing the Publications of ICPSR Data Reuse (ICPSR 데이터 재이용 저작물 분석을 통한 사회과학 분야의 지적구조 분석)

  • Chung, EunKyung
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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    • v.52 no.1
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    • pp.341-357
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    • 2018
  • Due to the paradigm of open science and advanced digital information technology, data sharing and re-use have been actively conducted and considered data-intensive in a wide variety of disciplines. This study aims to investigate the intellectual structure portrayed by the research products re-using the data sets from ICPSR. For the purpose of this study, a total of 570 research products published in 2017 from the ICPSR site were collected and analyzed in two folds. First, the authors and publications of those research products were analyzed in order to show the trends of research using ICPSR data. Authors tend to be affiliated with university or research institute in the United States. The subject areas of journals are recognized into Social Sciences, Health, and Psychology. In addition, a network with clustering analysis was conducted with using co-word occurrence from the titles of the research products. The results show that there are 12 clusters, mental health, tabocco effect, disorder in school, childhood, and adolescence, sexual risk, child injuries, physical activity, violent behavior, survey, family role, women, problem behavior, gender differences in research areas. The structure portrayed by ICPSR data re-uses demonstrates that substantial number of studies in Medicine have been conducted with a perspective of social sciences.