• Journal of the Korean Applied Science and Technology
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• v.34 no.4
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• pp.737-745
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• 2017

The aim of this study was to develop a community based participatory obesity control program and measure the effects of the program on obesity, exercise habit, eating habit and life habits among obese elementary school children. The community based participatory obesity control program was provided for the experimental group of $4^{th}$ grade elementary school students for 10 weeks. The program included obesity related health educations and counseling once a week, jump rope classes twice a week and folk game classes held once a week. Method: There were 24 students with obesity in the experimental and 27 in the control groups. The collected data were analyzed by the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, ${\chi}^2$-test, independent t-test and repeated measure ANOVA. Results: After 10weeks of participation in the program, the experimental group showed significantly lower Body Mass Index (p<.001) and waist hip ratio (p=.036), significantly higher exercise habit (p=.004), eating habit (p=.003) and life habit (p=.001) than those in the control group. Conclusion: This study provides evidence that community based participatory obesity management program is effective nursing intervention for managing child obesity.

• Korean Journal of Environment and Ecology
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.485-498
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• 2015

The need for forest therapy programs has been increasing. For more effective forest healing, it is necessary to identify the characteristics of participants and develop and operate more targeted and differentiated forest therapy programs accordingly. In this study, the relationships between MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) personality types and the relationship between the temperaments of MBTI and the preference for the forest therapy programs were analyzed respectively in pursuit of the basic data required for the effective development and operation of forest healing on the basis of individual characteristics. The survey on the forest therapy program and MBTI personality tests were conducted for 245 normal adults. Using the SPSS 21.0 program analysis, data were analyzed by Analysis of variance (ANOVA) to obtain the difference of preference on the forest therapy program according to the personality type. The Extraversion(E)-Introversion(I) types showed differences in technique-based breathing exercises, walking in the forest(wearing shoes), laughter therapy in the forest, viewing the forest, forest bathing, wind bathing and sun bathing. And the Sensing(S)-iNtuition (N) types had marked differences in listening to the sound of water flowing, drinking herbal tea and sleeping in the forest. The Thinking (T) -Feeling (F) types marked differences in soaking hands and feet in water and sleeping in the forest. The Judging (J)-Perceiving (P) types had differences in vision quest and viewing the forest, respectively, in statistics. Depending on the temperament of the character, there were statistically significant differences in preferences such as drinking herbal tea, eating natural food, sleeping in the forest, viewing the forest and listening to the forest commentary. The results of this study are expected to be used as a basis for forest healing program development and operation.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.53-63
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• 2014

Moving context determination is an important issue to be resolved in a mobile computing environment. This paper presents a method for recognizing and classifying a mobile user's moving context by Euclidean distance similarity. In the proposed method, basic data are gathered using Global Positioning System (GPS) and accelerometer sensors, and by using the data, the system decides which moving situation the user is in. The decided situation is one of the four categories: stop, walking, run, and moved by a car. In order to evaluate the effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed scheme, we have implemented applications using several variations of Euclidean distance similarity on the Android system, and measured the accuracies. Experimental results show that the proposed system achieves more than 90% accuracy.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.94-102
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• 2005

In this paper, three axial accelerometer was used to develop a small sensor module, which was attached to human body to calculate the acceleration in gravity direction by human motion, when it was positioned in any direction. To measure its wearer's walking or running motion using the sensor module, the acquired sensor data was pre-processed to enable its quantitative analysis. The acquired digital data was transformed to orthogonal coordinate value in three dimension and calculated to be single scalar acceleration data in gravity direction and normalized to be physical unit value. The normalized sensor data was used to detect walking pattern and calculate their step counts. Developed algorithm was implemented in the form of PDA application. The accuracy of the developed sensor to detect step count was about 97% in laboratory experiment.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.8 no.5
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• pp.127-135
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• 2017

The study was investigated for verifying the rate of diagnosis influencing factors for chronic diseases the people living in the Dong and Myeon in Sejong city. This study was secondary analysis based on the data from the Community Health Survey(2013-2015), totaling 1,067 people. The data were analyzed using a hierarchical logistic regression. The results showed that the probability of getting diagnosed with chronic diseases was 7.34 times higher for men than for women in the people living in the Dong. Also the group with less than three days of walking was 2.2 times higher than the other group who walked more than 3days. However, smoking group in the people living in the Myeon was 1.19 times higher than non-smoking group. As a result of the study, it was confirmed that it is necessary to develop a differentiated chronic disease prevention health care program adequate to Sejong city dweller.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.375-383
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• 2018

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of exercise training on health-related physical fitness and osteoporosis after 12 weeks of combined training for adults with intellectual disabilities diagnosed with obesity and osteoporosis. The subjects conducted a combined training program consisting of aerobic exercise and strength training twice a week for 12 weeks. Body composition and bone mineral density were measured before exercise, 6, 12 weeks, and health-related physical fitness was measured before and after exercise. Body weight and body fat decreased after exercise and bone density increased after exercise compared to before exercise. Muscle strength, muscle endurance and flexibility were improved after exercise compared to before exercise. It was confirmed that the 12 week compound training increased the leg strength and improved the functions such as walking and running, and increased the health-related fitness and increased bone mineral density.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.505-512
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• 2020

This study is done to provide basic data on the effective operation of the new policies by examining the satisfaction level of the elderly with dementia visiting dementia care centers located in 25 autonomous districts of S city. Self-administered questionnaires were distributed to 217 elderly with dementia who visited the above dementia care center from July 1 to September 30, 2019. The satisfaction tool is a chart score scale that displays negative-positive expressions at both ends of a straight line. The result shows that satisfaction level is significantly higher in the group with trust in the visiting institutions than in the group with distrust (t=9.74, p<.001), higher in cognitive impairment group than in dementia group (t=0.13, p=.034), and higher in mild depression group than in more severe depression group (t=2.31, p=.022). Satisfaction ratios analyzed by logistic regression shows significant differences in factors like gender, age, education, and walking pattern. In conclusion, it is important to run health support programs that consider user characteristics to improve the satisfaction of newly introduced dementia care centers.

• Korean Journal of Health Education and Promotion
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.73-81
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• 2010

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of 12 weeks walking exercise program participation on changes in aging-related hormones concentration in elderly men. Methods: 16 elderly men(above 65 years old) were participated in 12 weeks walking exercise program by group types(exercise group ; n=8 & control group ; n=8), and their aging-related hormones(GH, testosterone and melatonin) levels were assessed before program(0 week) and after program(12 weeks). Regularly walking exercise program(field walking exercise) performed for 12 weeks(3days/week, 60~70min/day, HRR 55~65%). All data were expressed as mean and standard deviation by using SPSS/$PC^+$(ver. 13.0) program, and to evaluate the differences before and after treatment by groups, data were analyzed by paired t-test(a${\leq}$.05) and 2-way ANOVA was performed to examine the differences between groups and within groups by variables. Results and Conclusion: The conclusions obtained from this study were as follows ; In growth hormone. testosterone and melatonin response after 12 weeks exercise was increased significantly in walking exercise group(p<.01; p<.001; p<.001). And in result of 2-way ANOVA analysis for group, exercise, group${\times}$exercise, as compared with the exercise, there is significant difference in all items. Interaction effect of between group and exercise is difference significantly on GH(F=5.915, p<.05), testosterone(F=15.117, p<.01) and melatonin(F=8.131. p<.01) in all groups. We observed a direct relationship(positive improvement) between the regular physical activity and aging-related hormones(growth hormone, testosterone and melatonin concentrations) in elderly men.

• Korean Journal of Health Education and Promotion
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.91-103
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• 2009

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of a 8-week compound exercise and a home-based walking exercise on body composition, perceived health status, and stress of nursing students. Methods: A non-equivalent control group design with pre-post test was employed. Participants, having BMI below 23 and Percent Body Fat above 26%, were assigned to three groups; 21 for the compound exercise(A), 26 for the walking exercise(B), and 23 for the control group. For data analysis, ANOVA in SPSS was used. Results: Body Fat Mass(kg), Visceral Fat Area(cm2), and Percent Body Fat(%) of both group A and B were significantly decreased. Lean Body Mass(kg) and Fitness Score of both group A and B were significantly increased in comparing with the control group. Especially the score of PBF(%) in group A was significantly decreased than the group B. The perceived physical health status in both group A and B was significantly increased. Conclusion: Both 8-week compound exercise and walking exercise were effective in enhancing BFM(kg), VFA($cm^2$), PBF(%), LBM(kg), Fitness Score and perceived physical health status. Especially the Compound exercise program was much more effective in decreasing PBF(%) than the walking exercise program.

• The Korean Journal of Rehabilitation Nursing
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.193-204
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• 2002

This study was a quasi-experimental study of nonequivalent control group pretest- posttest design to investigate the effect of aerobic walking exercise program on the physical & psychological functions of home stayed stroke patients. The data were collected during the period of May 20th to August 15th, 2001. The subjects for this study were 40 hemiplegic stroke patients with the experimental group consisting of 19 patients and the control group being composed of 21 patients. The patients selected for this study were: (a)living in J city who had been diagnosed with stroke and at home after being discharged from the hospital, (b)suffering from stroke for 6 months to 5 years, (c)without recognition disorder with the MMSE-K score above 25, (d)below 2 on the modified Ashworth scale, (e)free from heart and pulmonary disease (f)able to walk beyond 15 minutes for themselves. The aerobic walking exercise program for the experimental group was aerobic exercise and education and supportive care. The aerobic exercise was 8 weeks' period, three times a week, 35 to 50 minutes a day. And the education and supportive care was consisted of one home visiting and 2 times telephoning a week. The data were analysed by $X^2$-test, paired t-test and unpaired t-test and ANCOVA through SAS/PC program. The results of the study were as follows: 1. There was insignificant difference in the gait length experimental and control group. There was significant difference in the gait speed between the two groups. 2. There was significant difference in the dynamic valance between the two groups. 3. There was significant difference in ADL score between the two groups. 4. There was no significant difference in the depression between the two groups. As shown above, the results of 8 weeks' the aerobic walking exercise program for home stayed stroke patients produced positive effects on gait speed, dynamic valance, ADL score. And this program was expected that it was more effective in different intervention period, verified program. Also it was needed follow study.