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Development of a Smart Application for Protecting Dementia Patients (치매환자의 보호를 위한 스마트 앱 개발)

  • Hwang, Hyun Suk;Ko, Yun Seong;Ban, Ga Un;Kim, Chang Soo
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.16 no.9
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    • pp.1089-1097
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    • 2013
  • The applications for considering their position and daily patterns of dementia patients have been developed in an early stage even if the older patients who have weaker or serious symptoms has increased in various forms. In this paper, we develop an android-based application which displays positions and pathways of patients on maps and provide messages in the cases of dangerous situations. Guardians need to register schedules including safe areas and personal information of their patients. This system registers behavior status categorized as normal or abnormal each position which is sent to a database. In particular, the deviation status is assigned in case the patients are not within the safe areas that their guardians registered on their schedule. The wandering status is assigned in case the patients are repeatedly passed by their pathways. This smart application contains the modules such as patient position sending, guardian and patient information, patient schedule and safe zone registration, position and behavior status registration, pathway display and message sending, and rescue request. This system sends the notification and alarm service providing normal and abnormal behavior with deviation and wandering status of patients respectively.

Literature review on oral health among people with disabilities in Korea (2000-2015) (국내 장애인의 구강 관련에 대한 문헌고찰(2000년-2015년))

  • Choi, Eun-Mi;Choi, Won-Ick;Son, Jung-Hui
    • Journal of Korean society of Dental Hygiene
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    • v.17 no.6
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    • pp.957-967
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    • 2017
  • Objectives: This study consisted of a literature review on oral health among people with disabilities, and to present the factors that should be considered in developing an oral health program for people with disabilities. Methods: The key words 'people with disabilities' and 'oral health' were searched in 4 Korean academic journals and 5 online search engines and a total of 635 papers were identified. Duplicate papers were removed, and the literature selection criteria were applied to the remaining papers. Finally, a total of 45 papers were used in the review. Results: First, people with disabilities were the most common research subjects, followed by dental students, dental hygiene students, dentists, dental hygienist and guardians and special education teachers. Second, the most frequently studied research topic was dental examination, followed by oral health behavior and behavior of using dental clinics. Third, research purposes included the status of oral health, the quality of oral health, dental treatment, the use of oral health service, and oral hygiene behavior and perception. Fourth, the most frequently discussed policy task was expansion of research subjects, followed by oral hygiene and policy development. Conclusions: To enhance the oral health of people with disabilities who have difficulty in keeping their teeth clean and healthy on their own, development of an oral hygiene training program is required not only for people with disabilities, but also for guardians and teachers. It is equally important to examine oral health behavior that could potentially affect the status of oral health and create a more accurate and systematic oral hygiene method. In addition, the government, together with various other research institutes, should conduct an oral health survey of a representative sample of people with disabilities to determine oral health status and facilitate improvements to oral hygiene programs.

Relationship between Sweet Preferences and Motivation Factors of 2nd Grade Schoolchildren (초등학교 2학년 일부 아동의 단맛 선호와 동기 요인과의 관련성)

  • Woo, Taejung;Lee, Kyung-Hea
    • The Korean Journal of Food And Nutrition
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    • v.27 no.3
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    • pp.383-392
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    • 2014
  • This study was implemented to understand the motivation factors for $2^{nd}$ grade schoolchildren that effect on their preference for the sweet taste. The subjects included were 118 children (59 boys and 59 girls) and 118 children's guardians, from one elementary school. Children participated in sweet preference test and questionnaire survey with researcher's guidance provided in the school. Children's guardians were asked to fill out the questionnaire via home-letters. The results were as follows: 59% of the children preferred the cocoa beverage with the highest concentration of sugar among five cocoa beverages (0%, 2.5%, 5%, 7.5%, and 10% of sucrose/milk volume). The variables consisted of affective attitude, cognitive attitude, self-efficacy, parenting style, and sweets frequency. According to the analysis, sweet preferences were correlated with children's affective attitude (r=-0.207, p<0.01), self-efficacy (r=-0.288, p<0.01), frequency of drinking carbonated beverage (r=0.272, p<0.01), preference for yogurt (r=0.184, p<0.05), and preference for sweet bread (r=0.226, p<0.05). These results indicated that children can be more affected by affective attitude than cognitive attitude, and self-efficacy can be an important motivation factor to control the eating behavior related to sweets. Therefore, nutrition educators need to focus on developing various methods related to increasing self-efficacy for encouraging and motivating healthy eating behavior in children.

A Study of Dementia Patient Care Monitoring System Based on Indoor Location Using Bluetooth Beacon (블루투스 비콘을 활용한 실내위치기반 치매환자 모니터링 시스템에 관한 연구)

  • Kwon, Dae-Won
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.217-225
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    • 2016
  • In this study, a dementia patient care monitoring system is suggested that uses a wearable type bluetooth beacon to prevent them from going missing. This system shows whether the patients stay within the manageable area and sends a warning message to their monitoring managers' or guardians' smart devices when they leave it. The feature of the system is that it provides the service based on indoor location that makes the beacon worn by dementia patients continuously transmit their location information to the managing server through the smart terminal installed indoors or in hospitals and that enables the monitoring managers or the guardians to receive messages sent from the server that tell the patients' whereabouts through their smart devices. The system suggested in this paper is believed to be a system that effectively contributes to the prevention of the dementia patients' going astray from the hospitals and facilities where they are taking care.

The Evaluation of Medical Quality Improvement Activities Through Standardised Intravenous Injection Control Instruction (표준화된 정맥주사 관리 교육을 통한 의료질 향상(QI) 활동 평가)

  • Han, Sang-Sook;Park, Sun-Kyung
    • Journal of East-West Nursing Research
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.137-145
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    • 2005
  • Purpose: This study has been attempted as one of the Quality Improvement activities in order to provide with intravenous injection control and to confirm the evaluation from the patients and their guardians, and also from nurses themselves. Method: The subject of this intravenous injection control was a control group of 239 patients and 176 nurses, a comparison group of 128 patients and 146 nurses. The tool consisted of hospitality (towards patients), explanation, and infection prevention activities. The collected data were analysed using SPSS Windows 11.0 program for percentage, $X^2$-test and t-test. Result: 1) The nurses who were instructed in standardised intravenous injection control received more satisfactory evaluation from the patients(t=-2.89, p=.004) than the nurses who were not. However, in the subdivisions, the explanation field was the only one to receive a more satisfactory evaluation(t=-1.14, p=.255). 2) The nurses who were instructed in standardised intravenous injection control showed higher performances in intravenous injection control (t=-4.21, p=.000) than the nurses who were not. In the subdivisions, hospitality, explanation, and infection prevention activities all showed effectiveness ($t=-2.35{\sim}3.90$, $p=.020{\sim}.000$). Conclusion: From the results stated above, it can be concluded that standardised intravenous injection control instruction for nurses brought out better evaluation, i.e. satisfaction, from the patients and their guardians, and the nurses who received the instruction showed better performances in intravenous injection control.

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A Study in the Medical Service Improvement at University Hospitals with Concentration upon Life in Hospital Guide (입원환자의 의료질 향상(QI)을 위한 입원생활 안내문의 효과)

  • Park, Sun-Kyung;Han, Sang-Sook;Paik, Seung-Nam
    • Journal of East-West Nursing Research
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.74-82
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    • 2004
  • Purpose: This study has been conducted as a quality improvement activity in order to confirm the assessment of patients, their guardians and nurses by providing them with a Life in Hospital Guide. Method: Nursing with Life in Hospital Guide provision was conducted at an University Hospital with patients admitted within 5 days or less and their guardians, a control group of 375 persons and a comparison group of 372 persons, and the data have been collected from the 26th of May to the 10th of October 2003. A Life in Hospital Guide, in the form of a leaflet, that contained useful information such as meals, facilities, car parking, documents, linen products etc, was used. The collected data have been analysed using SPSS windows programme 11.0 for percentage, $X^2$-test, and t-test. Result: The comparison group who were provided with a Life in Hospital Guide will know better about the articulars needed to live in hospital than the control group who were not,' the average of the comparison group (4.04) was higher than the control group (3.04), which is a significant difference (t=-27.06, p=.000). Conclusion: As a results of this study, it was confirmed that life in hospital guidance through a leaflet each as a quality improvement activity, are effective.

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An Analysis of Online Black Market: Using Data Mining and Social Network Analysis (온라인 해킹 불법 시장 분석: 데이터 마이닝과 소셜 네트워크 분석 활용)

  • Kim, Minsu;Kim, Hee-Woong
    • The Journal of Information Systems
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    • v.29 no.2
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    • pp.221-242
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    • 2020
  • Purpose This study collects data of the recently activated online black market and analyzes it to present a specific method for preparing for a hacking attack. This study aims to make safe from the cyber attacks, including hacking, from the perspective of individuals and businesses by closely analyzing hacking methods and tools in a situation where they are easily shared. Design/methodology/approach To prepare for the hacking attack through the online black market, this study uses the routine activity theory to identify the opportunity factors of the hacking attack. Based on this, text mining and social network techniques are applied to reveal the most dangerous areas of security. It finds out suitable targets in routine activity theory through text mining techniques and motivated offenders through social network analysis. Lastly, the absence of guardians and the parts required by guardians are extracted using both analysis techniques simultaneously. Findings As a result of text mining, there was a large supply of hacking gift cards, and the demand to attack sites such as Amazon and Netflix was very high. In addition, interest in accounts and combos was in high demand and supply. As a result of social network analysis, users who actively share hacking information and tools can be identified. When these two analyzes were synthesized, it was found that specialized managers are required in the areas of proxy, maker and many managers are required for the buyer network, and skilled managers are required for the seller network.

The Adult Guardianship and Medical Issue According to the Amendments of Civil Code (성년후견과 의료 -개정 민법 제947조의 2를 중심으로-)

  • Park, Ho-Kyun
    • The Korean Society of Law and Medicine
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.125-153
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    • 2012
  • The adult guardianship system has been introduced through amendments of Korean Civil Code for the first time in the March 2011(Act No. 10429, 7. 1. 2013. enforcement). The adult guardianship system has the main purposes to provide a lot of help vulnerable adults and elderly, and protect them on the welfare related with property act, treatment, care, etc. There could be a controversy about whether the protection Legal Guardian's consent(formerly known as the Mental Health Act) or permission of the Family Court(revised Civil Code) are required to, or the Mental Health Act should be revised, when mental patient will be hospitalized forcibly. The author proposes that mental patient with Adult guardians should be determined by Legal Guardian's consent and approval of the Family Court, but mental patient without Adult guardians could be determined by Legal Guardian's consent. The issue of Withdrawing of life-sustaining treatment could be occurred due to the aging society and the development of modern medicine, and this has provided difficult, various problems to mankind in Legal, ethical, and social welfare aspects. The need of Death with dignity law or Natural death law has been reduced for a revision of the Civil Code. Therefore, on the issue of Withdrawing of life-sustaining treatment, in the future, intervention of the court is necessary in accordance with the revised Civil Code Section, and Organ Transplantation Act and the brain death criteria may serve as an important criterion.

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Design and Implementation of Non-contact IoT Ringer Replacement Automatic Notification System (비접촉 IoT 링거 교체 자동 알림 시스템 설계 및 구현)

  • Lee, Hyo-Seung;Oh, Jae-Chul
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.13 no.6
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    • pp.1405-1410
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    • 2018
  • The Ringer's Solution used in medical institutions is one of the injections helpful for recovering the body condition from fever or dehydration by supplying the water to the body. The medical staffs frequently check the amount of Ringer's Solution prescribed for the relevant patient to check the time for replacing the Ringer's Solution. However, currently, many nurses experience the excessive workload because of the insufficient workforce and lots of workload assigned to each of the nurses; so the they cannot provide the high-quality medical services to patients and guardians. In order to solve this problem, this thesis designed and realized the Ringer's Solution replacement time control system through the non-contacting sensor, IoT device using WiFi, and OCS interlock. Thus, this study is expected to be able to efficiently operate the Ringer's Solution replacement work and also to provide the high-quality medical service to patients and guardians by automatically notifying the timing of Ringer's Solution replacement to medical staffs, and omitting the inefficient intermediate step in the past.

Incident response system through emergency recognition using heart rate and real-time image sharing (심박수를 이용한 위급상황 인식 및 실시간 영상공유를 통한 사고대처 시스템)

  • Lee, In-kwon;Park, Jung-hoon;Jin, Sorin;Han, Kyung-dong;Hwang, Hoyoung
    • Journal of IKEEE
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.358-363
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    • 2019
  • In this paper, we implemented a welfare system for the elderly living alone, disabled, or babies to provide fast incident response in case of emergency situations. The proposed system can quickly recognize emergency situations using heart rate sensors and real-time image sharing. The sensors attached on a wrist band monitor the heart rate along with relevant bio signals of clients and send alarms to guardians in the emergency situations. At the same time, the real-time image signals are captured using OpenCV and sent to the guardians in order to give the exact information for fast and appropriate response to handle the situation. In the proposed system, the camera works only in the emergency situations so as to provide enough privacy to the client's every day life.