Web-based Factor Analysis System for Prevention and Management of Habitual Substance Disorder in Adolescents

In Yeup Kong; Jeong Yee Bae; Young Hoon Kim; Won-Joo Hwang

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Kong, Bae, Kim, and Hwang: Web-based Factor Analysis System for Prevention and Management of Habitual Substance Disorder in Adolescents

Original Article

Journal of Korean Society of Medical Informatics

Journal of Korean Society of Medical Informatics 2009; 15(1): 93-108.

Published online: 31 March 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4258/jksmi.2009.15.1.93

Web-based Factor Analysis System for Prevention and Management of Habitual Substance Disorder in Adolescents

In Yeup Kong¹, Jeong Yee Bae², Young Hoon Kim³, Won-Joo Hwang⁴

¹School of Electronic Engineering, Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Gyeongbuk, Korea.

²Department of Nursing, Inje University, Busan, Korea.

³College of Medicine, Inje University, Busan, Korea.

⁴Department of Information and Communications Engineering, UHRC, Inje University, Gyeongnam, Korea.

Corresponding author (ichwang@inje.ac.kr)

Received 1 March 2008 Accepted 9 March 2009

Abstract

Objective

The purpose of this study is to design the web-based dialogue expert system for preventing and managing of habitual substance disorders in adolescents.

Methods

Research process includes the requirement analysis, making of questionnaires, actual survey, and its analysis. Based on the analysis, we designed the web-based dialogue expert system.

Results

The habitual substance disorders in adolescents are variable. Our system for managing habitual substance disorders contains the diagnosis of alcoholism, nicotinism, and narcotism. And it analyzes the facts of them based the questionnaires and answer. As the results of the analysis, main reasons in order of the power of influence are belief, will of refusal, personal characteristics, family environment, and psychological personality. Our system suggests the customized solution to conquer that for each adolescent. Moreover, our system also includes the history tracking mechanism to manage the status of each teenager constantly and to make the survey and analysis information. Available at http://www.baejy.com/yebang/

Conclusion

With our system, young boys and girls can know their seriousness of alcoholism, nicotinism, and narcotism. And they can get all possible helps through our system. This system will be the interactive and familiar way that anyone all over the world can use for overcoming problems.

Keywords: Expert System, Adolescents, Alcoholism, Nicotinism, Narcotism

Figures and Tables

Figure 1

Checkup list for the belief of habitual substance use

Figure 2

Checkup list for the refusal will of drinking

Figure 3

Checkup list for the refusal will of smoking

Figure 4

Checkup list for the refusal will of drug use

Figure 5

Checkup list for home/family environments

Figure 6

Checkup list for studying

Figure 7

Checkup list for school and friends

Figure 8

Checkup list for familiy's habitual substance abuse

Figure 9

Checkup list for anti-social personality

Figure 10

Checkup list for impulse personality

Figure 11

Checkup list for gloomy personality

Figure 12

Checkup list for uneasy personality13)

Figure 13

Checkup list for self-consciousness

Figure 14

Diagonosis for habitual substance abuse

Figure 15

Factors of the habitual substance abuse, and their relations

Figure 16

Example of the result page for non-habitual substance abuse

Figure 17

Example of the result page for normal habitual substance abuse

Figure 18

Example of the result page for serious habitual substance abuse

Table 1

Database design (example for the belief of habitual substance)

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