• Journal of The Korean Society of Integrative Medicine
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.223-230
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• 2019

Purpose : Wellness tourism is defined as travel for the purpose of promoting health and well-being through physical, psychological, or spiritual activities. The development and verification of a comprehensive wellness program for health care for workers is needed. The purpose of this study is to investigate the wellness and skin health effects of skin health programs in order to develop high-value health care services. Methods : The subjects were 15 middle-aged women who understood the research and volunteered and participated in the two-day skin health wellness program. Participants were measured to determine their wellness index and skin health twice: before and after participating in the program. Wellness index measures include comprehensive wellness, physical wellness, mental wellness, emotional wellness, social/cultural wellness, financial wellness, and environmental wellness. Skin health measurement items consisted of skin oil, skin water, skin pore, skin elasticity, skin wrinkle, and skin pigment. The skin wellness program included aerobic exercise, endurance exercise, functional food, cosmetics, herbal tea, massages, spa treatments, meditation, and marine leisure sports. The t-test analysis was used to compare the difference between wellness index and skin health measurement items before and after the program. Results : Among the wellness index items, the comprehensive wellness index (p<.05), mental wellness index (p<.05) and environmental wellness index (p<.05) showed statistically significant differences. Among skin health items, skin oil (p<.05), skin elasticity (p<.01) and skin wrinkle (p<.01) all showed statistically significant differences. There was no statistically significant difference in physical wellness, emotional wellness, social/cultural wellness, financial wellness, skin water, skin pore and skin pigment. Conclusion : This study confirmed that the two-day complex wellness program is an effective program for some items of wellness index and skin health.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.241-251
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• 2012

Despite the increasing importance that companies currently place on employee wellness, few studies have explored the impact of wellness on individual and team performance in the workplace. Drawing on the broaden-and-build theory, we hypothesize that wellness intention, wellness leadership, and wellness climate influence the performance of both individuals and teams. We tested our hypotheses using data collected from 495 employees of 81 teams in 11 Korean companies. Our analysis indicates that wellness leadership and wellness climate are meaningful interventions between perceived wellness and performance. Wellness intention did not impact perceived wellness. However, the interaction between wellness intention and wellness leadership impacted perceived wellness. Wellness climate negatively moderated the relationship between perceived wellness and performance.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.13 no.7
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• pp.381-391
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• 2015

Today, individuals' psychological attitude toward health has been changed from passive to active and dynamic way of thinking. This trend has made attention to wellness more interesting. However, prior studies regarding wellness have been limited in developing indices to measure status of individuals' wellness. Thus, this study adopts five major components of wellness, including physical, emotional, intellectual, social, and occupational wellness in order to examine their effects on individuals' wellness state. The data from 494 employee at various organizations were analyzed to test proposed hypotheses. The results reveal that five components of wellness have a significant influence on wellness status. Based on the findings, academic and practical implications for wellness convergence systems are discussed.

• Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
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• v.45 no.3
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• pp.459-468
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• 2015

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of Wheel of Wellness counseling on wellness lifestyle, depression, and health-related quality of life in community dwelling elderly people. Methods: A parallel, randomized controlled, open label, trial was conducted. Ninety-three elderly people in a senior welfare center were randomly assigned to two groups: 1) A Wheel of Wellness counseling intervention group (n=49) and 2) a no-treatment control group (n=44). Wheel of Wellness counseling consisted of structured, individual counseling based on the Wheel of Wellness model and provided once a week for four weeks. Wellness lifestyle, depression, and health-related quality of life were assessed pre-and post-test in both groups. Results: Data from 89 participants were analyzed. For participants in the experimental group, there was a significant improvement on all of the wellness-lifestyle subtasks except realistic beliefs. Perceived wellness and depression significantly improved after the in the experimental group (n=43) compared to the control group (n=46) from pre- to post-test in the areas of sense of control (p =.033), nutrition (p =.017), exercise (p =.039), self-care (p <.001), stress management (p =.017), work (p =.011), perceived wellness (p =.019), and depression (p =.031). One participant in the intervention group discontinued the intervention due to hospitalization and three in the control group discontinued the sessions. Conclusions: Wheel of Wellness counseling was beneficial in enhancing wellness for the community-dwelling elderly people. Research into long-term effects of the intervention and health outcomes is recommended.

• Journal of Information Technology Services
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.93-106
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• 2020

This study attempts to present specific technical measures and case models to meet the needs of caregivers and maximize the effectiveness of senior care facilities by utilizing Wellness IT Service. IT services for supporting elderly care need to go beyond productivity and efficiency and now require the new choice and standards to satisfy the Wellness concept of well-being and happiness. Therefore, this study explores to develop the existing human-based service into the Wellness IT Service by utilizing IT based Wellness in the elderly care facility and thereby to improve the quality of elderly care service. Therefore, this study analyzes the relevant research background and the various feasibility of technical applications of Wellness IT service, and review the new value creation in the elderly care facilities. Lastly this study provides a new foundation for Wellness architecture and a service model for using Wellness IT infrastructure of the elderly care facilities.

• Annual Conference of KIPS
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• 2015.10a
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• pp.1742-1744
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• 2015

최근 Wellness 산업이 발전되면서 Wellness 분야의 다양한 서비스 형태에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 기존의 Wellness 서비스는 디바이스에 한정되어 서비스를 제공하기 때문에 제한적인 문제점이 있다. 보다 다양한 형태의 서비스를 제공하기 위해서 디바이스에 한정된 서비스를 자동차 환경에 적용하여 제공하는 자동차 Wellness에 대한 연구가 진행되고 있다. 자동차 내의 Wellness 서비스는 운전자 건강관리, 사고예방과 같은 서비스와 질 높은 콘텐츠를 제공한다. 본 논문에서는 자동차 내의 운전자 건강상태 최적화를 위한 지능형 Wellness 서비스를 제안한다. 이 서비스를 통해 운전자의 건강상태를 최적화하여 사고 예방에 도움이 된다. 또한 지능형 Wellness 서비스 연구동향 및 다양한 형태의 Wellness 서비스의 향후 발전 방향에 대해 고찰한다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.19 no.8
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• pp.83-93
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• 2014

Research into recommendation systems for wellness content has focused on representative research on the convergence of wellness and information technology, as interest in wellness has recently increased. But existing research is not suitable because it uses only one or two of the five wellness areas: physical, emotional, social, intellectual, and spiritual. And It cause decline of reliability and satisfaction for recommendation. Thus, a wellness areal feature analysis and integration management technique is needed. In this paper, suggest meta-data configuration and feature analysis technique of content. Also Cosine similarity of wellness areal features of the content was analyzed by applying a wellness areal score calculated in this way and by suggested wellness areal detailed properties and a measurement system to verify the efficiency of this research. This allows the wellness features of contents analyzed, and even will be able to personalized recommendations service for wellness.

• Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
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• v.46 no.1
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• pp.69-78
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• 2016

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to develop a wellness index for workers (WIW) and examine the validity and reliability of the WIW for assessing workers' wellness. Methods: The developmental process for the instrument included construction of a conceptual framework based on a wellness model, generation of initial items, verification of content validity, preliminary study, extraction of final items, and psychometric testing. Content validity was verified by 4 experts from occupational health nursing and wellness disciplines. The construct validity, convergent validity and discriminant validity were examined with confirmatory factor analysis. The reliability was examined with Cronbach's alpha. The participants were 494 workers from two workplaces. Results: Eighteen items were selected for the final scale, and the results of the confirmatory factor analysis supported a five-factor model of wellness with acceptable model fit, and factors named as physical emotional social intellectual occupational wellness. The convergent and discriminant validity were also supported. The Cronbach's alpha coefficient was .91. Conclusion: The results indicate that the WIW is a valid and reliable instrument to comprehensively assess workers' wellness, and to provide basic directions for developing workplace wellness program.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.180-184
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• 2024

Since COVID-19, many foreign tourists have visited Korea for medical tourism. When statistical data were checked from 2022, after COVID-19, the number of foreign patients visiting Korea for two years was 24.8 million, an increase of 70.1% from 2020. It was confirmed that it has achieved a 50% level compared to 2019 (Statistics Office, 2023). Therefore, to create a development plan by linking medical tourism and wellness tourism, the purpose of this study is to find the link between medical tourism and wellness tourism as big data and present a development plan. In this research method, medical tourism, and wellness tourism for two years from 2022 to 2023 from the post-COVID period as big data are set as central keywords to compare text data to find common points. When analyzing wellness tourism and medical tourism, it was confirmed that most wellness tourism had a greater frequency than medical tourism. This confirmed that wellness tourism occupies a larger pie than medical tourism. As a result, when checking the word frequency, it was confirmed that wellness tourism and medical tourism share a lot as complex tourism products, and when checking 2-gram, to attract many medical tourists, it is necessary to combine medical tourism clusters and wellness tourism according to each other's characteristics among local governments.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.1219-1235
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• 2006

This study aimed to inquire the relationship among wellness, quality of life and socio-demographic variables in Korean middle school students. 'Korean Wellness Scale for Middle school students(K-WSM), Quality of Life Scale, and other socio-demographic data were surveyed to 1,200 students in national wide area. For the results, ANOVA, Pearson's Correlation, and Multiple regression were conducted. With demographic variables, sex, religion, & academic achievement of students, social economic status(SES) and living with both of parents were positively related to wellness and quality of life. But grade and physical disease of student didn't show significant relationships. The relationship between wellness and quality of life showed high correlation (r=.66, p < .05). Among the wellness subscales, spiritual and social wellness showed significant predictive power. In the end, the contributions and limitations of this study were discussed.