• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.129-137
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• 2019

The aim of this study was to investigate the association between self-rated oral health, self-rated health, and quality of life (QOL) among older population from the 7th Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES VII-1, 2016). Data of 1,866 older adults (Mean age 69.5 years) were analyzed with hierarchical logistic regression analyses with IBM SPSS 23.0. Over 87.7% of the subjects rated their oral health as fair or poor. Women and less educated participants more likely to report their perceived oral health as poor (p<.05). Older participants who rated their general health positively were more likely to rate their oral health as good (F=19.04, p<.001). Elders who had bad perceived health (OR: 2.86, 95% CI: 1.5~5.5), had carries in permanent teeth (OR: 2.68, 95% CI: 1.67~4.32) and anxiety or depression (OR: 1.45, 95% CI: 1.42~2.57) had negative oral health perception after controlling for covariates. In conclusion, perceived oral health and QOL were associated with each other in Korean older adults. Therefore, it is recommended to approach holistic strategy for improve health and quality of life in the elderly population.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.357-363
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• 2022

South Korea faces elderly care crisis with both low fertility rate and rapid ageing rate. Long-term care insurance in 2008 has taken care burden from family to nation. However, few options, lack of tailored services, and unstable community care plan caused blankness of care in some areas. Especially, increasing dementia rate has become an emergent social issue. Welfare technology could be a useful alternative to fill out the gap between demand and supply. Using FGI method on two groups(high-risk dementia group and MCI group), intimacy, accessibility and preventive way of dementia with welfare technology are analysed in this paper. Despites of a few differences of dementia progress, interests towards technology are expressed. More suggestions using TV and normal telephone to improve daily independence are presented as well. Amongst MCI group, help-service for technology-use at ADS and linkage ways of in-home services are also suggested.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.1-9
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• 2024

This study aimed to assess the levels of depression, social support, self-efficacy, and psychological well-being in the elderly, and to identify factors influencing psychological well-being. To identify factors that affect the psychological well-being of the elderly, the data that responded that they had problems such as diseases, disabilities, and economic difficulties that negatively affect retirement life were selected and were analyzed using IBM SPSS Statistics 23 program. Research results showed that psychological well-being was correlated with depression, social support, and self-efficacy. Education level, monthly pocket money, depression, social support, and self-efficacy were variables that significantly predicted psychological well-being, and the explanatory power of these variables was 51.8%. This suggests that in order to improve the psychological well-being of the elderly, it is necessary to develop and apply programs that reduce depression and strengthen social support and self-efficacy.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.46 no.8
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• pp.97-107
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• 2008

This study was conducted in order to identify the relationship between psychological factors, such as depression and self-esteem, and nutritional status, such as nutritional risk index and nutrient intake, among the elderly in Chunnam Province. The participants were 119 elderly individuals over the age of 65 years who visited the Senior Welfare Center in Chunnam province between January 29 and February 2, 2007. This study was conducted using a structured questionnaire that included, the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D), General Self Efficacy Scale (GSES), Nutritional Screening Initiative Checklist (NSI checklist), questions pertaining to the general characteristics of the participants and an estimation of nutrient intake using the 24-hour recall method. Data were analyzed by the SPSS program. Analysis of the participant's CES-D scores revealed that 43.7% of the subjects were normal and 56.3% had more than mild depression. The mean GSES score was 45.9 for the entire group of subjects (51.9 for men, 43.6 for women). The mean nutritional risk index value was 4.30 (5.03 for men, 4.01 for women). Analysis of the participant's scores on the NSI checklist revealed that 69.7% of the subjects were normal and 30.3% exhibited a moderate nutritional risk. The CES-D was positively correlated with the NSI checklist (p < 0.05) but negatively correlated with nutrient intake. However, the GSES was negatively correlated with the NSI checklist (p < 0.05), but positively correlated with nutrient intake (P < 0.01 for protein, calcium, phosphorus, zinc etc.). The results of this study indicate that it is necessary to manage psychological factors, including depression and self-esteem, in the elderly in order to decrease their nutritional risk and increase their nutrient intake.

• Korean Journal of Rural Living Science
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.135-144
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• 1994

This study was carried out to investigate health status and nutritional status based on dietary intake and food habit of elderly women in rural area of Keyonggi Province. The subject of this study were 133 elderly women aged 60 and over and interviewed with a questionaire. Main result was as follows : 1) Health score based on modified Cornell Medical Index, CMI(45 out of 195 items) was the average $29.1\pm6.8$ and was not significantly different with family size educational level and farmwork participation. In age, 44.0% of the subject in 60~65 years old was low score of CMI(11~25), but 50% of the subject in older than 80 years old was high score(33~44). The subject with disease was 82% and disease of musculoskeletal system was main type. 2) Dietary intake data obtained by a semiquantitative food frequency questionaire showed the average daily intake of energy, protein, Ca, retinol and riboflavin was lower than RDA Daily energy, protein and Ca intake was individually 84%, 67% and 55.1%. It was retinol that was the least sufficient as 49.1% of RDA. 3) The relation between CMI score(divided into three level : low, middle and high) showed low level was significantly different with others according to daily intake of energy, protein, retinol, thiamin, riboflavin and ascorbic acid. The correlation between CMI score and all nutrient intake were highly significant (p＜0.001), thus we knew that health status was affected importantly by nutrient intake. 4) Family size, educational level and age showed not significant correlation with all nutrient intake. 5) In food habit, 84.8% of the subject had regular mealtime and 14.4% were skip meal sometimes. The main reason of skip meal was a poor appetite. Preference for salty taste of subject was insufficiently salty of somewhat salty. Preference for fishes and meats showed the subject consumed fishes more than meats, but 23.5% of the subject didn't consume both. The subject eaten supplement was 38.3%.

• KOREAN POULTRY JOURNAL
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• v.40 no.12
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• pp.110-112
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• 2008

올해 양계업계를 뒤돌아보면 많은 일들이 있었던 것 같다. 2월에 새롭게 양계산업 전진을 위한 '이준동 호'가 양계협회를 이끌어 가기 위해 첫 항해를 시작했다. 산란계의 텃밭이었던 협회 내에서 육계를 사육하는 젊은 패기로 똘똘 뭉쳐있는 이준동 회장의 당선으로 새로운 역사를 이끌어 나간다는 포부로 올해 양계협회가 시작이 됐다. 2008년 양계산업의 가장 큰 이슈를 꼽는다면 고병원성 AI를 꼽지 않을까 싶다. 이는 나뿐이 아닌 우리나라 전 국민의 이슈이기도 했다. 또한 육계 계열 업체와 농가 간 계약간의 문제와 원종계 문제 등 풀리지 않는 실타래를 만드는 악순환이 이어져 가는 한해가 아니었나 싶다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 1997.11a
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• pp.115-119
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• 1997

본 논문은 색료의 삼원색인 빨강, 노랑 및 파랑을 적절히 혼합하는 경우에 나타나는 색채를 추론하는 문제에 대하여, 퍼지이론을 적용하여 결과를 추론하는 문제를 다루고 있다. 즉, 인간이 색료의 혼합에 있어서 행하는 과정을 모사한 퍼지규칙을 바탕으로 삼원색의 색료가 일정 분량씩 혼합된 경우, 결과적으로 나타나는 색을 직접 실험을 통하지 않고 추론할 수 있는 시스템을 구축하고 있다. 또한, 구축된 시스템에 대하여 여러 가지 예를 통한 모의 실험을 수행하여 본 연구에서 구축된 색채혼합 시스템의 타당성을 검증하였다.

• The Korea Swine Journal
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• v.17 no.10 s.194
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• pp.56-57
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• 1995

이번 시작된 불황은 일시적인 고통을 없애는 수매비축이나 수입육 방출 중단도 중요하지만 양돈업계의 근본 문제를 해결하는 기회가 되어야 한다. 지금까지 논의를 꺼려왔던 문제들을 적극적으로 토의하고, 왜 생산비가 높은 지에 대한 구체적이고 과학적인 검토와 절감될 수 있는 부분과 절감해야 할 부분을 솔직히 표현하는 것이 필요하다. 90Kg 돼지 1마리를 생산하는데 목표를 12만원으로 정하면 이를 위해서 인건비, 사료비는 얼마가 되어야 하고, 생산성은 어느 수준에 맞추어야 되는 지를 계산해 볼 필요가 있다. 그리고 이를 현실로 실천에 옮기기 위한 계획과 노력이 필요하다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.20 no.12
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• pp.333-339
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• 2019

Our country has become an aging society with unparalleled speed, compared to other advanced countries. Many of the elderly are physically, economically, and psychologically dependent; this dependence is a factor that increases the cost burden not only on the children and relatives of the elderly, but also at the social level. Under the prevailing environment of the family-oriented informal support system, the burden of support for elderly parents who rely on limited resources is highly likely to lead to abuse. Until now, dealing with the abuse of senior citizens has been mostly a one-off approach through media rather than academics. Therefore, this study attempts to take an objective approach to the elder abuse problem (which has so far been dealt with in the media as a form of domestic violence) in order to grasp the specificity and factors of elder abuse and to present the Korean situation with regard to elder abuse. In addition, this study seeks to find ways to prevent elder abuse in formal and informal ways.

• Asia-pacific Journal of Multimedia Services Convergent with Art, Humanities, and Sociology
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• v.9 no.11
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• pp.1015-1026
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• 2019

The purpose of this study is to develop evaluation indexes for improving the quality of long-term care institutions (facility salary) evaluation in the sense that the applicability and effectiveness of previous studies related to the development of evaluation indexes for long-term care facilities for elderly are insufficient. There was this. To this end, an analytical review of the 2018 long-term care institution (accommodation benefit) evaluation index, an analysis of Japan's elderly long-term care home evaluation index, and the elderly long-term care facility workers in Korea and the special care home for the elderly in Japan FGI on evaluation indicators and evaluation system was conducted. Based on the results of the research, evaluation indicators were developed in terms of supporting users to receive high quality services. The characteristics of the elderly, that is, the characteristics of elderly diseases that are difficult to maintain and improve, the direction and transparency of institutional operation, and the need for terminal care were reflected. Forty-three evaluation indicators were presented, covering institutional operations, environment and safety, beneficiary rights protection, payroll process, and payroll results. In addition, we proposed a four-step multi-level evaluation system that can improve the efficiency of the evaluation process by improving the redundant and unnecessary evaluation process.