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Ji-Hee Lee, Sakae Mikane, Yoshiko Futoyu, Kazuo Nakajima
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The aim of this study is to identify common factors which influence health-related lifestyles of community-dwelling elderly persons in Korea and Japan, in order to obtain basic data on development of East Asian health promotion model. Concretely, this study considered the effects of health-related commitment and health-related self-efficacy on health-related lifestyles, after assuming the same model for community-dwelling elderly persons in Korea and Japan. For this research, an unsigned survey was conducted with 500 community-dwelling old adults each registered in the senior citizen support center in B City, A Prefecture, Japan, and in the senior citizen welfare facility in B City, A Province, Korea. For statistical analysis, among the collected questionnaires, data from 182 Japanese aged people and 214 Korean aged people who had no flaws in analysis items, were employed. According to the analysis by structural equitation modeling, both of Korean and Japanese aged people had high self-efficacy in health care, as they highly perceived health-related commitment, and continued to practice health lifestyles, as they highly perceive self-efficacy. This result implies that there is a necessity of implementing health education which lays emphasis on an intervention into health-related commitment and self-efficacy in health care, for making the elderly keep health-related lifestyles.
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Naoko Madokoro, Yuko Ito
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For the Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) patients in the process that shifted from in a wheelchair-ridden to bed-ridden, I performed a random ed clinical trail and carried out occupational therapy and compared the change of the QOL of intervented group and the follow-up control group. The participants in the sutudy were made of 20 people in an intervention group and 20 in an control group. There are stages were VII and VIII in Functional Classification. We examined the change at the begining and three months later by using the Schedule of Individual Quality of life-Direct Weighting (SEIQoL-DW) and the MDQoL-60. As a result, the scores of SEIQoL-index and in MDQoL-60 items of psychological stability, environment and the human relations increased in the interventioned group. The scores of SEIQoL-index and in MDQoL-60 items of psychological stability, environment, hope and activity declined in the control group. As a result of having compared the amount of change between two groups,the score's of SEIQoL-index and in MDQoL-60 items of psychological stability, ADL, environment, hope, activity, human relations and nature in the intervention group surpassed those scores in the control group. Therefore, it was suggested that the occupational therapy based on the needs of the DMD patients is one of the effective support to lead to QOL and it effects on them.
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Xiaoguang Lu, Hiroki Ohtani
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The characteristics of the hepatic tumor movement caused by respiration were evaluated by using fluoroscopy in this study. Motion signal curves of the tumor and apex were derived from fluoroscopic images acquired under the Motion View Mode on cone beam CT installed on an Elekta Synergy-S accelerator. The curves showed the relationship between the tumor and the diaphragm movement caused by respiration. Measurements showed motion of the tumor was closely related to that of the diaphragm caused by respiration. For the same patient, the periods and the ranges of the respiration were only slightly dissimilar among different fractions. On one hand, the patients could hold breath to minimize the extent of tumor motion. On the other hand, the tumor motion can be deduced from the motion of a marker affixed to the patients' skin. It is possible to reduce the influence of motion uncertainty by investigating the respiration to make treatment planning more accurate.
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Hisashi Yoshizawa
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The purpose of this research was to clarify the characteristics of CT-scanned patients at Tokyo Metropolitan Bokutoh Hospital and to investigate effects of the aging of the population on CT scan study. We retrospectively surveyed patient's age who had undergone CT scan study at Tokyo Metropolitan Bokutoh Hospital from 2002 through 2011. The patients were divided into four age groups: age under 15, age 15-64, age 65-74, and age over 75. Median age and mean age for patients increased from 52.6 and 58.8 years in 2002 to 56.8 and 63.0 years in 2011. The proportion of the patients 75 years or older increased from 14% in 2002 to 23% in 2011. The proportion of the patients 15 to 64 years decreased from 55 % in 2002 to 46% in 2011. The proportion of the patients 75 years or older and 15 to 64 years were highly-correlated to the percentage of regional population (Sumida-ku, Koto-ku, Edogawa-ku) of 75 years or older and 15 to 64 years. The result of this research indicates that the proportion of CT-scanned patients at least 75 years old will increase to about 40% by the year 2025.
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Taro Ohama, Nobuhiro Ishihara, Shoichi Kitamura
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A multi-wire chamber with a narrower anode wire pitch has higher space resolution in radiation measurements. In some cases, narrower pitch is quite useful; however, higher electric potential on the anode wires is necessary in inverse proportion to the pitch width. This is disadvantageous viewed from design and construction. The new wire plane, which works as a pair of electric slits, is attached in parallel with the anode wire plane in a popular chamber (pitch of p=3mm, relatively lower anode wire potential). By operating these electric slits, we can virtually divide the anode wire pitch into 3 regions. It was possible to obtain the information from each region by a particles. Then, we could complete the whole picture of the object, superposing them on the screen. The image of a thin small spanner (wrench) as an example shows that the new chamber works at a low anode wire potential corresponding to p=3mm, equivalent to the anode wire pitch of a p=1mm. This technique is applicable widely to design and construct chambers for precise resolution at low anode wire potential.
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