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Construction Status and Proposal for Information Communication Facility of Childcare Center -After COVID19, focusing on IT Technology Utilization- (어린이집 정보통신설비 구축현황 및 제안 -COVID19 이후 IT기술활용 중심으로-)

  • Lee, Jae-Yong;Shin, Seung-Jung
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.43-50
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    • 2020
  • The purpose of this study is to examine the case of constructing information and communication facilities in daycare centers and to propose an educational environment that can foster young talents who can lead the era of the fourth industrial revolution. In particular, after COVID19, a method was proposed to create an information and communication environment suitable for children to receive personalized education, and to create an environment for experiential education if possible, and at the same time to enable averaging of customized learning. Since there has been no research on information and communication facilities in daycare centers, we intend to place significance on starting, and in the future, to foster creative and contextual children, we will reduce the movement of teachers through smart speakers and mobile devices, and tailor the educational environment through AI data. I think that the design of the daycare center should be changed in the direction of making the product. To this end, the CM role of information and communication supervision is needed, and it is hoped that it will become a design standard for daycare centers after COVID19 by developing research on daycare centers.

Factors Influencing Burnout of Nursing Students in the COVID-19 Situation (COVID-19 상황에서 간호대학생의 소진에 영향을 미치는 요인)

  • Lim, Semi;Yeom, Young-Ran
    • Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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    • v.11 no.12
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    • pp.39-48
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    • 2021
  • The purpose of this study was to identify the degree of grit, resilience, academic self-efficacy, and learning flow of nursing college students in the COVID-19 situation to identify the factors that influence burnout. Data were collected by using questionnaires from 155 students who were in 3rd year of the nursing college in G city, from May 11 to May 25, 2021. Data were analyzed by t-test, ANOVA, Scheffe, Kruskal-Wallis test, Pearson's correlation, and multiple regression. Statistically, burnout showed a significantly negative correlation with grit, resilience and academic self-efficacy. Influencing factors on burnout were resilience, satisfaction of major, academic self-efficacy and satisfaction of clinic practice accounting for 60% of the total change. Based on this study, strategies to enhance resilience, satisfaction of major, academic self-efficacy and satisfaction of clinic practice are required to reduce the burnout of nursing college students in the COVID-19 situation.

A Meta-Analysis of Treatment Effects on Viral Pneumonia Using TCM Injections Specified in the Clinical Guideline for COVID-19 in China

  • Chun, Hea Sun;Choi, Su Hyeon;Song, Ho Sueb
    • Journal of Pharmacopuncture
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.107-121
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    • 2021
  • Objectives: The purpose of this study is to analyze the efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) injections specified in the clinical guideline for COVID-19 by conducting a meta-analysis of viral pneumonia data. Methods: TCM injections data on viral pneumonia were collected until July 31, 2021. CNKI, PubMed, EMBASE, and the Cochrane electronic database were used to collect the clinical data. "COVID-19," "Viral pneumonia," "Tanreqing," "Xiyanping," "Reduning," "Xingnaojing," "Xuebijing," "Shenmai," "Shengmai," and "Shenfu" were used as keywords. All data collected were mainly about TCM injections and viral pneumonia. Furthermore, studies that included results such as the total effective rate, cough disappearance time, antipyretic time, lung rhomboid disappearance time, and adverse drug reaction were collected for the meta-analysis to identify the efficacy of TCM injections. However, data unrelated to TCM injections specified in the clinical guidelines for COVID-19 or viral pneumonia were excluded. The quality of included RCTs was assessed by the Cochrane Risk of Bias Tool, and Review Manager 5.3 software was used to conduct the meta-analysis. Results: A total of 18 studies with 1540 patients were included in this study. The results of the meta-analysis showed that the total effective rate OR = 4.61 (95% CI 2.92, 7.25, p = 1.00/ I2 = 0%); the cough disappearance time: SMD -1.23 (-1.37, -1.09, p < 0.00001/ I2 = 94%); the antipyretic time: SMD -1.26 (-1.40, -1.11, p < 0.00001/ I2=94%); lung rhomboid disappearance time: SMD -1.17 (-1.33, -1.02, p < 0.00001/ I2 = 89%); and adverse drug reaction was OR 0.36 (95% CI 0.20, 0.64, p = 0.21/ I2 = 30%). From the results, the treatment group (TCM injection) showed better efficacy than the control group (Western medication). Conclusion: Xiyanping, Reduning, and Tanreqing injections may yield benefits as COVID-19 treatments. However, clinical trials on TCM injections for the treatment of COVID-19 are still lacking. More high-quality clinical trials are still required.

A study on the role of elementary school principals in the New Normal era (뉴 노멀(New Normal) 시대 초등학교 교장의 역할 연구)

  • Yang, Ji-Hye;Park, Jung-Hwan
    • Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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    • v.11 no.11
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    • pp.185-194
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    • 2021
  • The purpose of this study is to identify the chaotic state of school education caused by COVID-19 and to seek the role of the principal in responding quickly to the national crisis. To solve this problem, 34 elementary school principals in Seoul, Busan, Daegu, Daejeon, and Jeju were surveyed with open questions through the first SNS on what leadership is needed to cope with COVID-19, and the second in-depth interview was conducted through phone calls. In the New Normal era, principal's leadership requires insightful and responsible leadership in supporting educational activities, class support, and problem prevention that can occur due to rapid response to crisis situations, rapid budgeting and input, and promotion of teacher-to-teacher communication, according to a survey. In crisis situations such as COVID-19, it is necessary to establish a role of principal for schools to cope stably and to establish an educational environment in which students learn in a safe environment. For this, national and educational policy support is needed.

Clinical features, diagnosis, and outcomes of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children associated with coronavirus disease 2019

  • Kwak, Ji Hee;Lee, Soo-Young;Choi, Jong-Woon;Korean Society of Kawasaki Diseasety of Pediatric Endocrinology (KSPE),
    • Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
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    • v.64 no.2
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    • pp.68-75
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    • 2021
  • The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection has been spreading worldwide since December 2019. Hundreds of cases of children and adolescents with Kawasaki disease (KD)-like hyperinflammatory illness have been reported in Europe and the United States during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic with or without shock and cardiac dysfunction. These patients tested positive for the polymerase chain reaction or antibody test for SARS-CoV-2 or had a history of recent exposure to COVID-19. Clinicians managing such patients coined new terms for this new illness, such as COVID-19-associated hyperinflammatory response syndrome, pediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome temporally associated with COVID-19, or COVID-19-associated multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C). The pathogenesis of MIS-C is unclear; however, it appears similar to that of cytokine storm syndrome. MIS-C shows clinical features similar to KD, but differences between them exist with respect to age, sex, and racial distributions and proportions of patients with shock or cardiac dysfunction. Recommended treatments for MIS-C include intravenous immunoglobulin, corticosteroids, and inotropic or vasopressor support. For refractory patients, monoclonal antibody to interleukin-6 receptor (tocilizumab), interleukin-1 receptor antagonist (anakinra), or monoclonal antibody to tumor necrosis factor (infliximab) may be recommended. Patients with coronary aneurysms require aspirin or anticoagulant therapy. The prognosis of MIS-C seemed favorable without sequelae in most patients despite a reported mortality rate of approximately 1.5%.

Framework of Health Recommender System for COVID-19 Self-assessment and Treatments: A Case Study in Malaysia

  • Othman, Mahfudzah;Zain, Nurzaid Muhd;Paidi, Zulfikri;Pauzi, Faizul Amir
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.12-18
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    • 2021
  • This paper proposes a framework for the development of the health recommender system, designed to cater COVID-19 symptoms' self-assessment and monitoring as well as to provide recommendations for self-care and medical treatments. The aim is to provide an online platform for Patient Under Investigation (PUI) and close contacts with positive COVID-19 cases in Malaysia who are under home quarantine to perform daily self-assessment in order to monitor their own symptoms' development. To achieve this, three main phases of research methods have been conducted where interviews have been done to thirty former COVID-19 patients in order to investigate the symptoms and practices conducted by the Malaysia Ministry of Health (MOH) in assessing and monitoring COVID-19 patients who were under home quarantine. From the interviews, an algorithm using user-based collaborative filtering technique with Pearson correlation coefficient similarity measure is designed to cater the self-assessment and symptoms monitoring as well as providing recommendations for self-care treatments as well as medical interventions if the symptoms worsen during the 14-days quarantine. The proposed framework will involve the development of the health recommender system for COVID-19 self-assessment and treatments using the progressive web application method with cloud database and PHP codes.

Analysis for Daily Food Delivery & Consumption Trends in the Post-Covid-19 Era through Big Data

  • Jeong, Chan-u;Moon, Yoo-Jin;Hwang, Young-Ho
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.231-238
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    • 2021
  • In this paper, we suggest a method of analysis for daily food delivery & consumption trends through big data of the post-Covid-19 era. Through analysis of big data and the database system, four analyzed factors, excluding weather, was proved to have significant correlation with delivery sales for 'Baedarui Minjok' of a catering delivery application. The research found that KBS, MBC and SBS Media showed remarkable results in food delivery & consumption sales soaring up to about 60 percent increase on the day after the Covid-19 related new article was issued. In addition, it proved that mobile media and web surfing were the main factors in increasing sales of food delivery & consumption applications, suggesting that viral marketing and emotional analysis by crawling data from SNS used by Millennials might be an important factor in sales growth. It can contribute the companies in the economic recession era to survive by providing the method for analyzing the big data and increasing their sales.

Virtual Academic Experience of College Students Due to COVID-19 (대학생의 COVID - 19로 인한 온라인 학업 경험)

  • Kim, Young-Hee
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.21 no.12
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    • pp.278-290
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    • 2020
  • This study evaluated college students' virtual academic experience due to COVID-19. Based on Colaizzi's analysis method, data from advanced interviews with 15 students were analyzed. The results were as follows. The participants showed a desire for eye-level learning, frustration on unsatisfactory academic factors, gratefulness for the factors that enhance academic satisfaction, lonely fight with the shortcomings of online lectures, and the factors predicted by COVID-19, and aim to seek balance through health care. Based on the results, the students should be prepared to learn at an appropriate academic level. Second, the change should be sought to increase delivery and concentration in class. Third, students are motivated by the professor's efforts to communicate in class and their sincerity and passion. Fourth, cooperation between professors and learners is needed to develop a sympathetic and supportive classroom atmosphere. Fifth, until the cessation of COVID-19, the principle of virtual education should persist unless there are exceptional circumstances. These results, which suggested specific ways to increase satisfaction with virtual learning lectures, can be used as basic data for establishing effective virtual teaching directions.

Clinical and Laboratory Features of Pediatric Patients with COVID-19: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis (COVID-19 소아 환자의 임상 양상 및 실험실적 특징: 체계적문헌고찰 및 메타분석)

  • Yoon, Ha Young;Cho, Young Ah;Yee, Jeong;Gwak, Hye Sun;Han, Ji Min
    • Korean Journal of Clinical Pharmacy
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    • v.30 no.4
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    • pp.270-278
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    • 2020
  • Background: Although the identification of clinical and laboratory features in pediatric COVID-19 patients is essential in establishing an appropriate treatment plan, a systematic review and meta-analysis on the topic has yet to be reported. Methods: We searched MEDLINE, Embase, and Web of Science to access clinical and laboratory characteristics as well as clinical outcomes of children with COVID-19 infection. A meta-analysis using random-effect model was performed to estimate pooled prevalence and 95% confidence intervals. Results: Among the 532 studies initially collected, 12 articles were finally included in the meta-analysis. Among the investigated 320 pediatric patients with COVID-19, fever (48.2%) and cough (39.3%) were the most common symptoms. Almost one third of patients (30.4%) were asymptomatic. In laboratory findings, only 11.4% of pediatric patients experienced lymphocytopenia. Increased inflammatory markers including c-reactive protein (18.6%) and procalcitonin (32.4%) were observed. Only a few patients needed mechanical ventilation and intensive care support, and only one death was reported. Conclusion: Pediatric patients with COVID-19 infection exhibited milder symptoms and more favorable outcomes compared to adults. However, considering the high rate of asymptomatic pediatric patients, close monitoring is required to prevent community infection in asymptomatic conditions and hidden disease progression.

Suggestions for Potentially Useful Herbal Medicines for Treating Insomnia in COVID-19 Era: A Mini-Review

  • Suh, Hyo-Weon;Kwon, Chan-Young;Kim, Jong Woo
    • Journal of Oriental Neuropsychiatry
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    • v.32 no.2
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    • pp.95-109
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    • 2021
  • Objectives: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has become a global pandemic. Mental sequelae occurring in patients with COVID-19 and the general population are important concerns. In Korea, herbal medicine is used nationwide to respond to this pandemic. It can be prescribed by COVID-19 telemedicine center of Korean medicine (KM). Among some herbal medicines, Gamiguibi-tang is the only herbal medicine prescribed for individuals with mental health, especially for those with insomnia. In this mini-review, the objective of this study was to summarize the evidence of some promising herbal medicines available for treating primary insomnia based on existing clinical and preclinical studies. Methods: A research team was formed for KM clinical practice guidelines for insomnia (version 1.0). Team members were provided with a list of references of relevant herbal medicines for insomnia. To gather evidence from clinical studies with appropriate sample sizes, among the list of references, randomized controlled trials for primary insomnia that included 50 subjects or more per arm and used herbal medicine were included in the final analysis. Moreover, pre-clinical studies examining the mechanism of action of each herbal medicine and studies on herb-drug interactions, were searched and summarized. Results: Four herbal medicines (Ondam-tang, Sanjoin-tang, Guibi-tang, and Hyeolbuchugeo-tang) were reviewed based on existing clinical and preclinical studies. Based on findings of existing studies, some suggestions of herbal medicines for insomnia in the COVID-19 era in Korea were suggested. Conclusions: Data of this study could be used to prepare a future revision of the manual of COVID-19 telemedicine center of KM.