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Descriptive literature review on the evaluation of the youth smoking prevention program effectiveness (청소년 흡연중재 교육프로그램의 효과평가에 관한 설명적 문헌고찰)

  • Park, Kyoung-Ok;Lee, Kyung-Won
    • The Journal of Korean Society for School & Community Health Education
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    • v.6
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    • pp.35-48
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    • 2005
  • The age of the very first smoking is a significant indicator of life-long health status. Smoking prevention intervention was actively conducted based in middle and high schools with the support of the Korean Act for Health Promotion since 1998. These governmental supports became large and various smoking prevention programs were developed and conducted in diverse standards and perspectives. This study made a comprehensive descriptive literature review on smoking prevention educational programs for youth in Korea to identify the intervention quality and effectiveness of them for future smoking prevention program development. A total of 28 peer-reviewed journal articles published between May, 1995 and May 2005 (for the last 10 years) were finally included in this review process. The study participants should be adolescences in middle or high schools in Korea and the intervention types of the review studies should be smoking prevention or cessation educational programs. The outcomes of the reviewed studies were reanalyzed by the participants' characteristics, theory basement, evaluation design, intervention period, evaluation outcomes, and program effectiveness Most smoking intervention programs were not specified by sex and smoking status. Largely most intervention programs focused on male students although female students' smoking percent is increasing including both smokers and nonsmokers. Based on the school grades, the large percents of smoking intervention were conducted to the first grade of middle school and the first grade of high school. Almost 70% of the reviewed studies did not apply any health behavior change theories and the Transtheoretical model and social cognitive theory were utilized in 7 studies among the last reviewed 30%. The theory-based intervention studies had greater effectiveness than the non-theory based studies. More than 90% had quasi-experimental evaluation design and the effectiveness of the non-experimental designed study seemed over estimated than the quasi-experimental or experimental designed studies. More than 60% of the reviewed studies made their education for less than j days, over a short period and the evaluation factors were knowledge and attitude in general which can be obtained in short intervention period. Therefore, smoking intervention programs for youth in Korea need to be modified in terms of research design such as the intervention period, intervention-evaluation design, theory-based approach, and population-focused intervention specification.

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Systematic review of the effect of coenzyme Q10 on antioxidant capacity while focused on evaluation of claims for health functional food (건강기능식품의 기능성을 중심으로 한 코엔자임Q10의 항산화 기능성에 대한 체계적 고찰)

  • Kim, Ji Yeon;Jeong, Sewon;Paek, Ju Eun;Kim, Joohee;Kwak, Jin Sook;Lee, Yoon Jung;Kang, Tae Seok;Kwon, Oran
    • Journal of Nutrition and Health
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    • v.46 no.3
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    • pp.218-225
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    • 2013
  • Although the functional ingredient has been evaluated by the Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) based on scientific evidence, the levels of scientific evidence and consistency of the results might vary according to emerging data. Therefore, periodic re-evaluation may be needed for some functional ingredients. In this study, we re-evaluated scientific evidence for the antioxidant activity of coenzyme Q10 as a functional ingredient in health functional food. Literature searches were conducted using the Medline and Cochrane, KISS, and IBIDS databases for the years 1955-2010 with the search term of coenzyme Q10 in combination with antioxidant. The search was limited to human studies published in Korean, English, and Japanese. Using the KFDA's evidence based evaluation system for scientific evaluation of health claims, 33 human studies were identified and reviewed in order to evaluate the strength of the evidence supporting a relation between coenzyme Q10 and antioxidant activity. Among 33 studies, significant effects for antioxidant activities were reported in 22 studies and their daily intake amount was 60 to 300 mg. Based on this systematic review, we concluded that there was possible evidence to support a relation between coenzyme Q10 intake and antioxidant activities. However, because inconsistent results have recently been reported, future studies should be monitored.

Digital Library Evaluation Criteria: What do Users Want? (디지털 도서관 평가기준: 이용자들이 원하는 것은 무엇인가?)

  • Xie, Iris;Joo, Soohyung;Matusiak, Krystyna K.
    • Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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    • v.25 no.1
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    • pp.5-18
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    • 2014
  • Criteria for evaluating digital libraries have been suggested in prior studies, but limited research has been done to understand users' perceptions of evaluation criteria. This study investigates users' opinions of the importance of digital library evaluation criteria. Thirty user participants, including 10 faculty members and 20 students, were recruited from five universities across the United States. They were asked to rate the importance of evaluation criteria in eight dimensions (e.g. collections, information organization, context, etc.). The results demonstrate that users care about evaluation criteria related to the use and quality of collection and services rather than the operation of digital libraries. The findings of this study are relevant to the development of user-centered digital libraries and associated evaluation frameworks through the incorporation of unique users' needs and preferences.

A Case Study on Performance Evaluation of IT Human Resource Program in Regional Industry (지역특화 IT 인력양성 프로그램 성과분석 사례연구)

  • Park, Jung-Hwan;Kim, Guk-Boh
    • The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.79-93
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    • 2014
  • IT industry that main domain is future growth engines and convergence industry is based on national development through convergence others industry. However, shortage of advanced IT workforce is not limited to the region and urban. But, Previous studies is comprehensive research on human resource development. Human resource development studies, performance analysis and policy studies, are lacking to achieve the characterization in the region. Accordingly, The need for institutional improvement are appearing for activated regional industry through advanced Human resource development and IT convergence. in this study, we propose in order to improve institutions through IT sector performance evaluation.

Probabilistic Reliability Evaluation of KEPCO System using TRELSS - V (TRELSS를 이용한 우리나라의 확률론적 신뢰도 평가에 관한 연구 - V)

  • Jeon D.;Kim T.;Cha S.;Choo J.;Tran T.;Lee S.;Choi J.
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • summer
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    • pp.11-14
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    • 2004
  • In recent, the importance and necessity of some studies on reliability evaluation of grid comes from the recent black-out accidents occurred in the world. The quantity evaluation of transmission system reliability is very important under competitive electricity environment. The reason is that the successful operation of electric power under the deregulated electricity market depends on transmission system reliability management. This paper introduces features and operation modes of the Transmission Reliability Evaluation for Large-Scale Systems(TRELSS) Version 6.2, a program made in EPRI, for assessing reliability indices of composite power system. The package accesses not only bulk but also buses indices for reliability evaluation of composite powers system. The characteristics of the TRELSS program are illustrated by the case studies using the KEPCO system

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