• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.159-166
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• 2023

Due to the aging workforce in the construction industry in South Korea, the accident rate has been increasing. The cognitive abilities of older workers are closely related to both safety incidents and labor productivity. Therefore, there is a need to improve cognitive abilities through personalized training based on cognitive assessment results, using cognitive training content, in order to enable safe performance in labor-intensive environments. The provided cognitive training content includes concentration, memory, oreintation, attention, and executive functions. Difficulty levels were applied to each content to enhance user engagement and interest. To stimulate interest and encourage active participation of the participants, the difficulty level was automatically adjusted based on feedback from the MMSE-DS results and content measurement data. Based on the accumulated data, individual training scenarios have been set differently to intensively improve insufficient cognitive skills, and cognitive training programs will be developed to reduce safety accidents at construction sites through measured data and research. Through such simple cognitive training, it is expected that the reduction of accidents in the aging construction workforce can lead to a decrease in the social costs associated with prolonged construction periods caused by accidents.

• Safety and Health at Work
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.57-65
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• 2021

Background: The objective of this study was to elucidate the relationships musculoskeletal pains with combined vulnerability in terms of age, gender, and employment status Methods: The fifth European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS) in 2010 (43,816 participants aged 15 years and over) analyzed for European employees and the third Korean Working Conditions Survey (KWCS) in 2011 (50,032 participants aged 15 years and older) analyzed for Korean employees. In this study, three well known vulnerable factors to musculoskeletal pains (older age, female gender, and precarious employment status) were combined and defined as combined vulnerability. Associations of musculoskeletal pains with combined vulnerability were assessed with prevalence ratios (PRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) estimated by Poisson regression models with robust estimates of variance. Results: The prevalences of musculoskeletal pains were lower but the absolute and relative differences between combined vulnerabilities were higher among Korean employees compared with the European employees. Furthermore, the increased risk of having musculoskeletal pains according to combined vulnerability was modestly explained by socioeconomic factors and exposure to ergonomic risk factors, especially in Republic of Korea. Conclusions: The results of this study showed that the labor market may be more unfavorable for female and elderly workers in Republic of Korea. Any prevention strategies to ward off musculoskeletal pains, therefore, should be found and implemented to mitigate or buffer against the most vulnerable work population, older, female, and precarious employment status, in Republic of Korea.

• 산업융합연구
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• 제19권6호
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• pp.165-175
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• 2021

본 연구의 목적은 재가노인지원서비스를 제공하는 종사자를 대상으로 재가노인지원서비스 존립에 대한 위기 인식을 파악하고 정책적, 실천적 제언을 하는데 목적이 있다. 본 연구는 질적 연구방법인 귀납적 내용분석을 기반하여 현재 재가노인지원서비스 존립 위기 인식의 원인과 위기 강화요인이 무엇인지 이로 인해 나타나는 위기 인식과 위기완화를 위한 상호작용, 위기완화 결과 예측은 어떠한지에 대하여 분석하였다. 자료수집을 위해 수도권 00시 재가노인복지협회에 추천된 자발적 참여자 4명을 표본 추출하여 심층면접을 실시하였다. 분석결과, 재가노인지원 센터의 위기관련 주요 요인은 심리적인 측면, 정책적인 측면, 역할 측면의 3가지로 나타났다. 첫째, 정책적인 측면에서 정책변화에 능동적으로 받아들이지 못하였을 뿐만 아니라 변화를 위한 노력에 한계가 있었다. 둘째, 심리적인 측면에서 정체성 혼란과 지역사회에서 부정적인 인식이다. 셋째, 역할 측면에서 기관과 법인, 그리고 협회의 적극적인 역할과 지원의 아쉬움이 있었다.

• 보건교육건강증진학회지
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.48-61
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• 1995

This study attempted to analyze the health habits affecting health status of industrial workers. Data was collected from 57 industries of 900 workers at Inchon. The research has been carried out through self-administered questionnaire and from the analysis of the health examination records and the results were as follows: 1. Among 861 respondents, men were 81.2%, women were 18.8%, 42, 6% were of the 30-40 age group, the married were 65.7%, the single were 32.5%, the high school graduates were 62.4% and 37.3% were of people who worked between 1 and 5 years. 2. As far as the seven health habits, current smokers were 54.9%, people who regularly exercise was 31.7%, 7-8 hour of sleep, on the average were 74.0%, people eating breakfast nearly every day were 8.0%, and people eating between meals almost every day were 54.2%. Heavy drinkers who drink 3-4 times or more per week were 13.2%, 1-2 times per week were 26.8% and the obese were 4.6%, 3. Health status of A and B, estimated by doctors in the health examination were 81.7% and C, D1, D2, the unhealthy were 18.3%. Men were reported more than women in unhealthy groups and the results regarding health status reflect gender, educational level and age, That is to say that, lower educational level group and over 30 years of age group perceive their health to be worse than the higher educational level and under 30 age group, And these differences were statistically significant. 4. The relationship between health habits and health status, expressed in terms of the odds ratio. Current smokers had a consistently worse health status than a nonsmokers with a 1.36 odds ratio. The workers who reported eating breakfast rarely or never were more associated with the unhealthy group than the regular breakfast eating group with a 2.48 odds ratio. One or more drink per week had a worse health status than a never or a little drinker with a 1.42 odds ratio. 5, The Health habits score and duration of work were selected as significant factors influencing health status based on logistic analysis. According to the results of this model, the odds ratio of good health status was 2.06 for good health habit score, 1.55 for population who worked seven years or more duration of work. As we have seen, good practices were found to be associated with better health and the effect of the health habits was cummulative;those who followed 6-7 health habits were in better health, even though they were older than those who failed to do so. Therefore, in order to provide the health promotion of workers it is necessary to establish a health management plan for an effective health education and health service. If we use this type of study as a prospective study design, we can get a precise basic data for health promotion and a management plan for industrial workers.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.216-224
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• 2009

이 연구의 목적은 산업체 근로자들이 치주질환을 예방하고 치료하는 것을 도와주기 위해서 치주질환의 인식 및 치주건강상태를 검사하는 것이며, 다음과 같은 연구 결과를 얻었다. 1. 근로자들이 치주질환에 관한 지식을 처음으로 알게 된 경로는 치과병원에서 알게 된 근로자가 36.3%로 가장 많았으며, 근로자들의 치석제거 주기에 관해서는 연령이 적을수록 치석제거를 6개월에 한 번해야 한다고 인식하고 있었다. 반면 연령이 높을수록 1년에 한 번 정도 해야 한다고 인식하고 있었으며, 연령에 따라 통계적으로 유의한 차이를 보였다(p<.05). 2. 근로자들이 가지고 있는 치주질환 상태를 살펴본 결과, 치주질환으로 이 사이에 음식물이 끼는 근로자가 26.5%로 가장 많았으며, 다음으로 잇몸에서 피가 나는 경우(24.5%)와 치아가 시리고(20.6%), 잇몸이 가끔 붓는 경우(15.9%), 그리고 치아가 흔들리는(4.5%) 순으로 나타났다. 3. 치주질환의 원인에 대해 근로자들은 부적절한 잇솔질 방법이라고 인식하는 근로자가 48.8%로 가장 많았으며, 치주질환을 예방할 수 있는 최선의 방법은 올바른 잇솔질이 잇몸질환을 예방할 수 있는 최선의 방법이라고 인식하는 근로자가 66.8%로 가장 많았다.

• 한국노년학
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• 제31권1호
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• pp.97-109
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• 2011

이 연구는 노인장기요양보호 인력의 소진 예측 요인을 살펴보고, 노인장기요양서비스 인력의 소진 예방을 위한 대안을 제시하고 있다. 노인장기요양보호는 고령이나 노인성 질병으로 인하여 일상생활을 혼자 수행하기 어려운 노인 등에게 신체활동 또는 가사지원 등의 서비스를 제공하는 것이다. 연구 대상은 전남지역 노인장기 요양시설에 근무하는 직원 216명이고, 자료수집은 자기기입식 방법의 설문지를 이용하였으며, 분석방법은 SPSS 12.0을 이용하여 회귀분석을 실시하였다. 노인장기요양서비스 인력의 소진 척도는 22개 항목의 3가지 하위척도, 즉 정서적 고갈, 탈인격화, 자아성취감의 감소로 구성된 MBI를 사용하였다. 분석 결과에 의하면 직무요인인 클라이언트 요인, 업무과중, 역할갈등, 수급자 가족과 갈등이 소진에 유의미한 영향을 끼쳤고, 동료의 정서적 지지가 소진을 감소시키는 효과가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 연구 결과를 통해 노인장기요양보호 인력의 전문적 지위와 평판을 강화하기 위한 제도 보완과 소진을 예방하는데 동료의 정서적 지지 체계가 중요한 요인임을 확인하였다. 결론으로 이 연구결과를 바탕으로 노인장기요양서비스 인력의 소진 예방을 위한 제도적 실천적 함의를 제언하였다.

• Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.171-181
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• 2008

Home care, known also as domiciliary care, is part of the community care service that is a responsibility of the local government authorities in the UK as well as many other countries around the world. The aim is to provide the care and support needed to assist people, particularly older people, people with physical or learning disabilities and people who need assistance due to illness to live as independently as possible in their own homes. It is performed primarily by care workers visiting clients' homes where they provide help with daily activities. This paper is concerned with the dispatching of care workers to clients in an efficient manner. The optimized routine for each care worker determines a schedule to achieve the minimum total cost (in terms of distance traveled) without violating the capacity and time window constraints. A collaborative population-based meta-heuristic called Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is applied to solve the problem. A particle is defined as a multi-dimensional point in space which represents the corresponding schedule for care workers and their clients. Each dimension of a particle represents a care activity and the corresponding, allocated care worker. The continuous position value of each dimension determines the care worker to be assigned and also the assignment priority. A heuristic assignment scheme is specially designed to transform the continuous position value to the discrete job schedule. This job schedule represents the potential feasible solution to the problem. The Earliest Start Time Priority with Minimum Distance Assignment (ESTPMDA) technique is developed for generating an initial solution which guides the search direction of the particle. Local improvement procedures (LIP), insertion and swap, are embedded in the PSO algorithm in order to further improve the quality of the solution. The proposed methodology is implemented, tested, and compared with existing solutions for some 'real' problem instances.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제15권21호
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• pp.9307-9312
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• 2014

Background: Hope is an important coping resource for cancer patients. Types and sources of hope and hope-inspiring strategies are not well investigated among Iranian cancer patients. The aims of present study were therefore to investigate the nature of hope and some demographic predictors of hope among Iranian cancer patients. Materials and Methods: This descriptive-correlational study was undertaken among 200 cancer patients admitted to an educational center affiliated to Ardabil University of Medical Sciences, Iran. Participants were selected using a convenience sampling method. The Herth Hope Index and other validated questionnaires were used to investigate level of hope and types and sources of hope, as well as hope-inspiring strategies. Data were analyzed using SPSS statistical software. Results: The overall score for hope was 31 from total scores ranging between 12 and 48. Some 94% of patients mentioned 'return to normal life' and 'complete healing of disease by drugs and physicians' as their main hopes. The most important sources of hope reported by patients include spiritual resources, family members, healthcare workers, and medicines and treatments available for the disease. Relationship with God, praying/blessing, controlling the signs and symptoms of the disease, and family/health care workers' support were the main hope-inspiring strategies. Patients who had a history of metastasis, or who were older, illiterate, divorced/widowed and lived with their children reported lower levels of hope. On the other hand, employed patients and those with good support from their families had higher levels of hope. Conclusions: The study findings showed moderate to high levels of hope among Iranian cancer patients. Accordingly, the role of spiritual/religion, family members and health care workers should be considered in developing care plans for these patients.

• 가족자원경영과 정책
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.59-73
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• 2005

The purpose of this study was to understand which factors affect on the leisure constraint and leisure attitude of workers, to observe how the factors of leisure constraints affect on the leisure attitude. The subjects of this study were 267 urban workers who are older than 20 years old and resident in Seoul. The periods of this study was from November 15 to December 5. The modified versions of leisure constraint scale and leisure attitude scale were utilized for this study. The results of this study are as follows : First, as a result to compare the average of leisure constraint factors, intrapersonal constraint, which are individual mental status as interest, self-consciousness, uneasiness et at., was founded generally less than interpersonal constraints as personal relationship for leisure activity, or structural constraints as financial, time, information et at., Secondly, it was found that interpersonal constraint was statistically different in age, and that structural constraint was statistically different in sex, education, health status, marital status, income, and career. Thirdly, there were statistically different in cognitive leisure attitude, feeling leisure attitude, and behavioral leisure attitude according to the average monthly income and career. But, it was found that marital status and the five-day workweek system were not statistically different in 3 leisure attitude factors. Finally, 3 leisure constraint factors(intrapersonal, interpersonal, structural) had statistically significant effect on cognitive leisure attitude. Also, intrapersonal leisure constraint and interpersonal leisure constraint had statistically significant effect on feeling leisure attitude and behavioral leisure attitude

• 지역사회간호학회지
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.95-105
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• 2016

Purpose: This study examined the characteristics differences associated with 1-year continuous smoking abstinence in Korean young adult and middle-aged male workers. Methods: 'Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES)' is an ongoing surveillance system that assesses the health and nutritional status of Koreans. For a secondary analysis of cross-sectional data from KNHANES VI-1, this study selected 683 Korean male workers as a subpopulation, who were young adult or middle-aged. The subpopulation was composed of success or failure group of 1-year continuous smoking abstinence. Binomial logistic regression analysis was performed. Results: Success group was more likely to be older, live in urban areas, rate their health status as excellent or good, and have ever been diagnosed with hypertension than failure group. Additionally, Success group was less likely to have used electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes), drink more than once a month, and have been exposed to secondhand smoking in workplace within a week. Conclusion: Developing smoking cessation programs requires consideration of resources in rural areas, promoting self-efficacy, restricting e-cigarettes and drinking, and promoting a smoke-free workplace.