• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.35-43
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• 2000

본 연구는 장애인이 일반인과 똑같이 정보사회에 적응시키기 위해 장애인복지를 위한 정보통신의 발전방향을 연구하였다. 연구의 방법으로는 델파이기법을 도입하였으며, 조사방법으로는 문헌적조사방법과 면담조사방법을 병행하여 연구분석의 틀에 의해 분석하였다. 정보통신에 대한 장애인의 문제점을 살펴보면, 정보통신 접근의 불편, 보편적 서비스 저하, 장애인의 PC 통신 이용 저조, 장애인복지의 낙후, 정보통신요금의 부담, 정보화교육의 부족, 장애인정보의 부족, 장애인복지 정책결정에 장애인 미참여 등으로 분석되었다. 장애인에 필요한 정보통신기술을 살펴보면, 지체장애인에게는 음성인식기술ㆍ화상인식기술ㆍ호흡압력감지기술, 시각장애인에게는 표시기술ㆍ음성인식기술ㆍ문자인식기술ㆍ지적변환처리기술ㆍ화상인식음성합성기술, 청각ㆍ언어장애인에게는 음성신호처리기술ㆍ음성인식기술ㆍ기적변환처리기술ㆍ문자인식기술ㆍ화상인식기술ㆍ음성합성기술이 필요하다. 장애인복지를 위한 정보통신을 발전시키기 위해서는 장애인정보통신위원회의 구성, 보편적 서비스의 제공, 정보화교육의 실시, 연구개발의 지원, 중소정보통신기업의 지원 육성, 소프트웨어산업의 육성, 장애인용 표준화 작업 추진이 요구된다.

• 재활복지
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.75-93
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• 2014

본 연구에서는 시각장애인의 정보접근권으로서의 대체자료 이용만족도가 사회참여에 미치는 영향과 그 과정에서 자기효능감의 매개효과를 검증하고자 하였다. 이를 위해 경기도에 거주하는 등록시각장애인으로서, 시각장애인연합회 회원 중 임의표집하였으며, 전화조사를 통해 수집한 최종 120명에 대한 자료를 분석하였다. 조사대상자들의 대체자료를 이용현황은 녹음자료를 가장 많이 사용하고, 여가활용 및 정보검색의 목적이 가장 많으며, 장소는 점자도서관에서 주로 사용하는 것으로 나타났다. 분석결과, 시각장애인의 대체자료 이용만족도는 사회참여에 통계적으로 유의미한 영향을 미치며, 자기효능감은 완전매개효과가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 이러한 결과는 시각장애인의 사회참여 확대를 위한 정보접근권의 보장으로서 대체자료의 중요성을 보여준다. 연구결과를 바탕으로 향후 대체자료 활성화를 위한 정책적 제언을 하였다.

• 한국융합학회논문지
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• 제10권5호
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• pp.103-110
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• 2019

알츠하이머형 치매(Alzheimer's disease, AD)가 입체시 지각에 영향을 미치는지를 규명하고자 정상노인, AD환자, 경도인지장애(mild cognitive impairment, MCI)환자 각각 20명을 대상으로 입체시 지각능력을 검사했다. 화면 좌우에 두 개의 정육면체가 제시되었으며, 참가자들은 둘 중 자신에게 더 가까운 물체를 지적하였다. 이 때 물체들 간의 상대적 거리를 절대부등과 상대부등으로 분리하여 조작하였으며, 각 부등 유형에서 교차부등과 비교차부등으로 부등의 방향도 함께 변화시켰다. 그 결과 MCI환자들과 AD환자들이 정상노인 못지않게 정확하게 수행한 것으로 나타났다. 이런 결과는 입체시 지각과정이 AD의 영향을 거의 받지 않는 증거로 볼 수 있다. 이런 결과를 AD로 인해 영향을 받는 고차원 시각 과정과 비교하면서 논의하였다.

• 대한물리의학회지
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.75-84
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• 2018

PURPOSE: This study was conducted to determine the effects of whole-body tilt exercise with visual feedback on trunk control, strength, and balance in patients with acute stroke. METHODS: The study included 18 patients with acute stroke who were randomly allocated to a Whole Body Tilt Exercise Group (WBTEG, N=9) and a General Trunk Exercise Group (GTEG, N=9). The WBTEG conducted whole-body tilt exercises with visual feedback, and the GTEG performed general trunk exercises. Both groups performed the exercises five times a week for 4 weeks. Outcomes were assessed using the trunk impairment scale (TIS), the trunk flexor and extensor strength test, the static balance test, and the Brunel Balance Assessment. RESULTS: After 4 weeks of intervention, both groups showed significantly improved TIS scores, muscle strength, and balance components (p<.05 in both groups). However, the improvement in TIS, muscle strength, and static balance in the WBTEG was significantly better than that in the GTEG (p<.05). CONCLUSION: Although both groups in this study showed post-intervention improvement, patients from the WBTEG who received visual feedback demonstrated more improvement. These findings indicate that whole-body tilt exercise with visual feedback may be effective at improving trunk control, trunk muscle strength, and balance in patients with acute stroke. Further studies are needed to gain a better understanding of the effectiveness of whole-body tilt exercise in patients with acute stroke.

• 간호행정학회지
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.421-431
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• 2008

Purpose: Using comprehensive and valid instrument, MDS-HC 2.0, this study aimed to analyze the functional status and to evaluate the care needs of the community-dwelling disabled with cerebral impairment. Method: With a convenient sample of 88 disabled with cerebral impairment, the data were collected at a community health center located in rural area in Choongchung providence in August 2005. Subject's functional status and care needs were evaluated using Minimum Data Set-Home Care version 2.0. Result: Significant proportion of subjects were totally dependent for locomotion-outdoor (26.1%), personal hygiene (24.1%), bathing (24.1%). For IADLs, over 40% of subjects were totally dependent for ordinary house work, managing finances, or shopping. Top five ranked care needs were preventive health care measures (100%), communication disorders (71.6%), visual function (55.7%), health promotion (52.3%), and pressure ulcers (48.9%). The proportion of triggered clinical assessment protocols were significantly higher in disability level I group for the risk of institutionalization (p=<.001), communication disorders (p=.004), cognitive problems (p=.001), pressure ulcers (p=<.001), skin and foot conditions (p=.010), and urinary incontinence and indwelling catheters (p=<.001). Conclusions: It is necessary to provide community based rehabilitation services that are individualized for their service needs thus enhance optimal level of functioning.

• 한국대기환경학회지
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.325-338
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• 2009

National parks provide recreation, health, and science to human being. The provision of beautiful landscape view of the national park improves an economic and social phase of a nation. However, visibility impairment frequently occurred in the national park area of Gyeongju. The purpose of this study is to investigate the physical and the chemical characteristics of visibility reduction observed at the national park area of Gyeongju. Optical, chemical, meteorological characteristics and scenic monitoring were performed at the visibility monitoring station of Gyeongju University located at the Seoak section of Gyeongju national park from April 28 to May 9, 2008. Light extinction, light scattering, and light absorption coefficients were continuously measured using a transmissometer, a nephelometer, and an aethalometer, respectively. In order to investigate the impact of aerosol chemistry on visibility impairment, size-resolved aerosols were collected at intervals of 2-hour (from 8 A.M. to 6 P.M.) and 14-hour (from 6 P.M. to 8 A.M.) interval each sampling day. The average light extinction coefficient and the average visual range were measured to be $270{\pm}135\;Mm^{-1}$ and $14.5{\pm}6.3\;km$ during the intensive monitoring period, respectively. It was revealed that sulfate particle was the largest contributor to the light extinction under hazy condition. Organic mass accounted for about 26% of the average light extinction. The mass extinction efficiencies for $PM_{1.0}$, $PM_{2.5}$, and $PM_{10}$ were estimated to be 9.0, 4.7, and $2.7\;m^2\;g^{-1}$ under the consideration of water growth function of hygroscopic aerosols, respectively.

• PNF and Movement
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.151-158
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• 2014

Purpose: The purpose of the study is to see the effect of walking when training for chronic stroke patients, Affected side vision impairment induced gait training with rhythmic auditory stimulation in parallel. Methods: This study was the general walking training group, the training group was divided damage induced affected side view, affected side view damage induced by rhythm auditory stimulation training three groups. Intervention period was 4 weeks. 5 times per week, per 30 min entered arbitration. Affected Side vision impairment induced induction training was conducted by installing a red cones, rhythmic auditory stimulation was applied to a regular rhythm training using a smartphone application (Metronome). Paired t-test was performed to see the difference between each group and before the intervention. One-way ANOVA was used to find out the significance probability between each group. Statistical significance was set at 0.05 probability. Results: Regular walking group, rather than affected side vision guided walking group could see increases in the FGA and DGI (P<0.05). And vision impairment induced affected side view and rhythmic auditory stimulation induction training this group than in the combination group walking group obtained higher scores on the FGA, DGI score(P<0.05). Conclusion: If you want to enforce certain rhythmic auditory stimulation of the visual field and side damage induced during gait training for stroke patients will be able to expect a better effect.

• 대한치매학회지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.148-157
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• 2023

Background and Purpose: Episodic memory is a system that receives and stores information about temporally dated episodes and their interrelations. Our study aimed to investigate the relevance of episodic memory to time perception, with a specific focus on simultaneity/order judgment. Methods: Experiment 1 employed the simultaneity judgment task to discern differences in time perception between patients with mild cognitive impairment or dementia, and age-matched normals. A mathematical analysis capable of estimating subjects' time processing was utilized to identify the sensory and decisional components of temporal order and simultaneity judgment. Experiment 2 examined how differences in temporal perception relate to performance in temporal order memory, in which time delays play a critical role. Results: The temporal decision windows for both temporal order and simultaneity judgments exhibited marginal differences between patients with episodic memory impairment, and their healthy counterparts (p = 0.15, t(22) = 1.34). These temporal decision windows may be linked to the temporal separation of events in episodic memory (Pearson's ρ = -0.53, p = 0.05). Conclusions: Based on our findings, the frequency of visual events accumulated and encoded in the working memory system in the patients' and normal group appears to be approximately (5.7 and 11.2) Hz, respectively. According to the internal clock model, a lower frequency of event pulses tends to result in underestimation of event duration, which phenomenon might be linked to the observed time distortions in patients with dementia.

• 정신신체의학
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.119-126
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• 2018

연구목적 본 연구의 목적은 알츠하이머병 및 경도인지장애 환자에서 백질고강도신호 차이에 따른 신경인지 기능 및 행동심리증상(BPSD)을 비교하는 것이다. 방 법 본 연구는 후향적 연구로서, 알츠하이머병 및 경도인지장애로 진단받은 115명을 대상으로 하였다. 뇌 자기공명영상의 백질 고강도 신호(white matter hyperintensity, WMH)는 표준화된 시각 기반 척도(Fazekas scales)에 의해 평가되었으며, 참가자들은 Fazekas 척도에 따라 두 그룹으로 분류되었다. 신경인지기능은 임상치매평가척도(CERAD-K)에 의해, BPSD는 한국형 신경정신행동검사(K-NPI)로 평가되었다. WMH의 심각도에 따른 신경인지기능 및 BPSD의 차이를 분석하기 위해 독립표본 t-test를 시행하였다. 결 과 WMH의 중증도가 높은 군은 유의하게 낮은 언어 유창성을 나타내었다(p<0.05). 또한 WMH의 중증도가 높은 군은 유의하게 높은 K-NPI 점수를 보였다(p<0.01). 결 론 WMH와 실행기능과 관련된 신경인지검사 간에는 유의한 연관이 있었다. 또한 WMH는 BPSD의 중증도에 영향을 미치는 것으로 보인다. 임상실제에서 WMH를 알츠하이머 병(Alzheimer's disease, AD)및 경도인지장애(Mild cognitive impairment, MCI)환자를 치료하는데 유용한 정보를 제공할 것이다.

• Radiation Oncology Journal
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• 제34권2호
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• pp.121-127
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• 2016

Purpose: To investigate treatment outcome and long term complication after surgery and radiotherapy (RT) for pituitary adenoma. Materials and Methods: From 1990 to 2009, 73 patients with surgery and RT for pituitary adenoma were analyzed in this study. Median age was 51 years (range, 25 to 71 years). Median tumor size was 3 cm (range, 1 to 5 cm) with suprasellar (n = 21), cavernous sinus extension (n = 14) or both (n = 5). Hormone secreting tumor was diagnosed in 29 patients; 16 patients with prolactin, 12 patients with growth hormone, and 1 patient with adrenocorticotrophic hormone. Impairment of visual acuity or visual field was presented in 33 patients at first diagnosis. Most patients (n = 64) received RT as postoperative adjuvant setting. Median RT dose was 45 Gy (range, 45 to 59.4 Gy). Results: Median follow-up duration was 8 years (range, 3 to 22 years). In secreting tumors, hormone normalization rate was 55% (16 of 29 patients). For 25 patients with evaluable visual field and visual acuity test, 21 patients (84%) showed improvement of visual disturbance after treatment. The 10-year tumor control rate for non-secreting and secreting adenoma was 100% and 58%, respectively (p < 0.001). Progression free survival rate at 10 years was 98%. Only 1 patient experienced endocrinological recurrence. Following surgery, 60% (n = 44) suffered from pituitary function deficit. Late complication associated with RT was only 1 patient, who developed cataract. Conclusion: Surgery and RT are very effective and safe in hormonal and tumor growth control for secreting and non-secreting pituitary adenoma.