• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.595-602
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• 2016

With the evolution and development of many kinds of healthcare devices and techniques, u-health standards have emerged as a major issue. Yet, most legacy medical devices and systems are still being used without deployment of the standards. Therefore, it is required to support backward compatibility for u-health standard-compliant systems to communicate with legacy non-standard medical and healthcare devices. This paper proposes a new scheme to support backward compatibility of IEEE 11073 system by adding a codec module to IEEE 11073 agent. The codec converts data sent by non-standard health devices to IEEE 11073 MDER data. Plus, we implemented the proposed IEEE 11073 agent with an Intel Edison board which is one of popular open source H/W platforms. The IEEE 11073 manager of the proposed system can monitor and control legacy non-standard devices through the proposed agent system. In our experimental results, we examined the proposed system can support interoperability between u-health standard and non-standard devices and contribute to the growth and expansion of u-health services.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.125-129
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• 2016

This study has a purpose of development of mobile health monitoring system for measuring, saving and transmitting health signals by standardizing and encoding methods under the mobile environment. The system consists of a module for measuring the health signals with Bluetooth function, encoding equipment for encoding the measured health signals by a standardized encoding method so as to maintain mutual compatibility between devices, and a mobile system for saving and transmitting the encoding health signals. The proposed system was realized under the mobilet environment and has showed to be able to make good use.

• Journal of Korean Society of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.293-300
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• 2012

Objectives: In chemical hazard communication, information receiver's perception is a important factor, but the study on the perception was few. Therefore, this study evaluated the perception of managers and workers group about chemical hazard communication by chemical hazard communication tools that were being used in fields. Methods: 91 managers and 238 workers were surveyed in two companies where use chemicals. All subjects were asked about the comprehensibility and perception for MSDS and GHS Pictograms being used in their workplaces through face-to-face interviews. Results: Most of the respondents knew MSDS, and more than half of the respondents had used MSDS once or more per year. The level of use to find the information on chemicals with MSDS was higher in the managers in comparison with workers. Also, the managers could understand and find the information on MSDS easier(p < 0.05). In the question asking the meaning of GHS Pictograms, the managers responded more correctly, as well(p < 0.05). 86.8% of the managers and 62.6% of the workers were conscious of the possible health hazards of chemicals that they could be exposed at work. However, among the respondents conscious of the health hazards, only less than 70% were well aware of the contents of the health hazards correctly. Conclusions: In chemical hazard communication, it is very important to evaluate whether information receiver have proper and correct knowledge and perception or not and actions based on the evaluations as well as provide correct information.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.8 no.7
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• pp.283-293
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• 2017

The objective of this study is to verify if the parent-child communication has a mediating effect in the relationship between the academic stress recognized by teenagers and the mental health. To achieve this, this study conducted a survey of teenagers who were attending high schools located in Daegu Metropolitan City and made a final analysis of 234 teenagers in total. To verify the mediating effect of parent-child communication in the relationship between the academic stress recognized by teenagers and the mental health, Baron & Kenny's mediating effect analysis method was conducted and the analytical findings are shown below. First, it appeared that career stress and test stress, among the subfactors of academic stress recognized by teenagers had an influence on mental health. Second, it appeared that parent-child communication played a mediating role in the influence of academic stress on mental health.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.229-238
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• 2019

This study investigated the relationship between ego-resilience, Nunchi, self-leadership, and communication competency of Health Majors Students in Studying for TOEIC(HMSST) and analyzed the convergent influence on communication competency. For collection data, this study distributed self-administered questionnaires from November 1 to November 30, 2018 and the questionnaires were distributed to randomly selected 280 health majors students in TOEIC class from colleges located in J area. The survey showed that the communication competency was positively correlated with ego-resilience, Nunchi and self-leadership. The covariance structure analysis showed that the higher ego-resilience, the higher Nunchi and the higher self-leadership tend to increase communication competency. The results of the study indicate that the efforts to increase ego-resilience, Nunchi and self-leadership will improve communication competency of HMSST. These results are expected to be utilized in educational support and mediation to enhance the communication competency among HMSST. In the following study, the research on the additional factors which may influence on communication competency will be needed.

• Safety and Health at Work
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.192-200
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• 2021

Background: A number of accidents have occurred in small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Efforts in reducing accidents have been undertaken through the implementation of safety behaviors. Unfortunately, few studies have examined motives behind unsafe behaviors, such as safety silence motives. This study aimed to observe the motives underlying safety behaviors, namely safety silence motive (SSM) (SSM-relation, SSM-climate, SSM-issue, and SSM-job) and to evaluate the effect of SSM and safety communication on safety participation in different industrial sectors and scales. Materials and Methods: Eighty workers from two industrial sectors and scales of SMEs were involved. They were instructed to fill out a set of questionnaires. A five-Likert scale was used to respond. An independent t test was applied to find any significant differences. The partial least square-structural equation modeling for multigroup was used to develop a model on relations among the variables. Results: The results showed that SSM scores were high in SMEs, and the scores were different across industrial sectors and scales. SSM had a negative influence on safety communication, and safety communication positively influenced safety participation. Conclusion: The study of SSM, safety communication, and safety participation in different sectors and scales should be separated in SMEs.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• v.15 no.14
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• pp.5845-5851
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• 2014

Reducing fear of cancer is significant in developing cancer screening interventions, but the levels of fear may vary depending on the degrees of media exposure as well as individuals' socioeconomic positions (SEP). However, few studies have examined how the SEP influences the fear of cancer under the moderating process of general and specific forms of media exposure. We investigated the moderating effect of media exposure on the relationship between SEP and the level of fear of cancer by assuming that cancer knowledge is a covariate between those two. In particular, this study examined how exposure to both general and specific media changes the series of processes from SEP to fear of cancer. We conducted path analyses with three types of media - television, radio and the Internet- using data from a health communication survey of 613 adults in Massachusetts in the United States. We found that SEP influences cancer knowledge directly and fear of cancer indirectly, as moderated by the level of media exposure. Health-specific exposure, however, had a more consistent effect than general media exposure in lowering the fear of cancer by increasing knowledge about cancer. A higher level of health-specific exposure and greater amount of cancer knowledge lessened the fear of cancer. In addition, the more people were exposed to health information on television and the Internet, the lower the level of fear of cancer as a result. These findings indicate a relationship between SEP and fear of cancer, as moderated by the level and type of media exposure. Furthermore, the findings suggest that for early detection or cancer prevention strategies, health communication approaches through mass media need to be considered.

• Journal of The Korean Society of Integrative Medicine
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.29-39
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• 2020

Purpose : This study investigated the relationship among adjustment of cancer, mental health, and family problem solving communication of women with cancer. The purpose of this study was to determine how to improve the adjustment of cancer of women and improve women's mental health to form family problem solving communication. Methods : This correlational study was conducted among 101 women with cancer living in the Seoul region. Data collection occurred from August 1, 2018, to August 23. The data are reported as means and standard deviations and were analyzed with t tests, ANOVA, and Pearson's correlation regression using SPSS version 21.0. Results : The results of this study showed that adjustment to cancer significantly correlated with the education level of the participants (F=3.27, p<.05) and self-help group participation (F=3.156, p<.05). In this study, the mental health of female cancer patients significantly affected their adjustment to cancer (F=13.13, p<.001). These results explained 19.7% of the variance (F=13.13, p<.001) in mental health and adjustment to cancer in female cancer patients. Conclusion : In this study, mental health was significantly affected adjustment to cancer. The results suggest that adjustment to cancer can be promoted through the development and application of a nursing intervention program considering the mental health of female cancer patients. In addition, further research is required to identify the factors in consideration of various variables in addition to the sociodemographic and disease-related variables that may affect the adjustment to cancer of female cancer patients in nursing hospitals.

• International Journal of Contents
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.62-68
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• 2009

This paper presents a novel method to design and implement mobile u-health system by defining the essential elements of mobile healthcare services. We choose common service elements for the proposed u-healthcare scheme and design the service platform. Especially we focus on automatic feces or urine sensing u-care scheme to prove the effectiveness of our platform. We construct the system with sensing part with a manikin and a diaper wireless communication part with feces or urine sensing data, and coordinator system based on the u-health platform defined in this paper. Experimental results show that our scheme is useful in the area of u-care service for the handicapped, the elderly, and patients who can hardly move by themselves. In addition the designed scheme offers a realized u-care scheme with the purpose of advanced developing tools for application or service developers.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Toxicology Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.187-187
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• 2005