System for providing diabetes educational content customized on basis of health literacy, and method therefor

Abstract

The present invention relates to a system for providing diabetes educational content customized on the basis of health literacy, and a method therefor. According to the present invention, the system may comprise: a display unit for displaying, to a user, a plurality of pre-stored health literacy evaluation questions or diabetes educational content; an input unit for receiving an response of the user for each displayed health literacy evaluation question; an analysis unit for evaluating health literacy of the user by assigning, to the input responses of the user, a pre-set score for each question; and a control unit for transmitting a control signal so as to display the pre-stored diabetes education content on the display unit according to the health literacy of the user.

Description

Medical Literacy-Based Diabetes Customized Educational Content Provision System and Method

[0001] The present invention relates to a medical literacy-based diabetes customized educational content provision system and method, and more specifically, to a medical literacy-based diabetes customized educational content provision system and method that evaluates a user's medical literacy and provides diabetes educational content according to the user's medical literacy level.

[0002] With the recent increase in average life expectancy and changes in lifestyles, the number of diabetes patients in Korea has exceeded 6 million, and the pre-diabetic population is approximately 15.83 million, indicating a significant need for educational content regarding diabetes. In particular, while the prevalence of diabetes among the 2030 generation is rising sharply, appropriate education is necessary because about 60% of them are unaware of their blood sugar levels.

[0003] In addition, for diabetes, it is important to maintain proper exercise and diet to achieve treatment goals and minimize the occurrence of complications.

[0004] Meanwhile, medical literacy involves acquiring necessary information related to a disease, understanding that information, and determining whether it is appropriate; assessing medical literacy is important because a patient's understanding of their disease varies depending on their level of medical literacy.

[0005] Therefore, there is a need for technology that measures patients' medical literacy and provides diabetes education content based on this.

[0006] The technology forming the background of the present invention is disclosed in Korean Patent Publication No. 10-2018-0065347 (published June 18, 2018).

[0007] As such, according to the present invention, the purpose is to provide a medical literacy-based diabetes customized education content provision system and method that evaluates a user's medical literacy and provides diabetes education content according to the user's medical literacy level.

[0008] According to an embodiment of the present invention for achieving such technical challenges, a system for providing customized diabetes education content based on medical literacy may include: a display unit for displaying a plurality of medical literacy assessment questions or diabetes education content stored in advance to a user; an input unit for receiving the user's answers for each of the displayed medical literacy assessment questions; an analysis unit for evaluating the user's medical literacy by assigning a pre-set score to each of the user's answers; and a control unit for transmitting a control signal to display the diabetes education content stored in advance to the display unit according to the user's medical literacy.

[0009] The above display unit can display multiple medical literacy assessment questions that have been stored based on the user's selection, or when the user has never performed a medical literacy test, or when a preset time has passed since the last time a medical literacy test was performed.

[0010] The analysis unit above can calculate a total score based on the input user's answer, assigning 1 point for a correct answer and 0 points for an incorrect answer for each option of the question, and evaluate medical literacy by comparing the total score with a reference score.

[0011] The analysis unit may evaluate the user's medical literacy as low if the total score is below the reference score, and evaluate the user's medical literacy as high if the total score exceeds the reference score.

[0012] The above control unit can transmit a control signal to provide pre-designated diabetes education content based on the user's presence of diabetes and medical literacy.

[0013] A method for providing medical literacy-based customized education content for diabetes according to another embodiment of the present invention may include: a step in which a display unit displays a plurality of medical literacy assessment questions stored in advance to a user; a step in which an input unit receives the user's answers for each of the displayed medical literacy assessment questions; a step in which an analysis unit evaluates the user's medical literacy by assigning a pre-set score to each of the user's answers received in advance; a step in which a control unit transmits a control signal to the display unit to display the diabetes education content stored in advance according to the user's medical literacy; and a step in which the display unit displays the diabetes education content to the user.

[0014] As such, according to the present invention, by providing educational content on diabetes based on the user's medical literacy, the patient's health management can be assisted more smoothly.

[0015] FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of a medical literacy-based diabetes customized education content provision system according to one embodiment of the present invention.

[0016] FIG. 2 is a flowchart of a method for providing medical literacy-based diabetes-customized educational content according to another embodiment of the present invention.

[0017] FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of displaying medical literacy assessment questions for non-diabetics according to another embodiment of the present invention.

[0018] FIGS. 4a to 4e are drawings illustrating an example of displaying medical literacy assessment questions for diabetics.

[0019] FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example of the sequence of diabetes education content for diabetics according to another embodiment of the present invention.

[0020] FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of the sequence of educational content for non-diabetics according to another embodiment of the present invention.

[0021] Preferred embodiments according to the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the attached drawings. In this process, the thickness of lines or the size of components shown in the drawings may be exaggerated for clarity and convenience of explanation.

[0022] Throughout the specification, when a part is described as "including" a certain component, this means that, unless specifically stated otherwise, it does not exclude other components but may include additional components.

[0023] Furthermore, the terms described below are defined in consideration of their functions within the present invention, and these may vary depending on the intent or practice of the user or operator. Therefore, the definitions of these terms should be based on the content throughout this specification.

[0024] In the embodiments described below, the medical literacy-based diabetes customized education content provision system (100) is described by specific examples as being performed by a computing device including one or more memories or one or more processors that perform the following process.

[0025] FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of a medical literacy-based diabetes customized education content provision system according to one embodiment of the present invention.

[0026] As illustrated in FIG. 1, the medical literacy-based diabetes customized education content provision system (100) includes a display unit (110), an input unit (120), an analysis unit (130), and a control unit (140).

[0027] First, the display unit (110) can display multiple medical literacy assessment questions or diabetes education content stored in advance to the user. At this time, the medical literacy assessment questions may be of the multiple-choice type that presents two or more options.

[0028] Specifically, the display unit (110) may display multiple medical literacy assessment questions that have been stored by the user's selection, or that the user has never performed a medical literacy test, or that a set amount of time (e.g., 1 year) has passed since the last time the medical literacy test was performed.

[0029] As a result, the user can perform a medical literacy test.

[0030] Additionally, the display unit (110) can display previously stored daily diabetes education content according to a control signal received from the control unit (140).

[0031] Next, the input unit (120) can receive the user's answers for each displayed medical literacy assessment question.

[0032] Specifically, the input unit (120) can receive the user's answers for each evaluation question through a mouse, keyboard, voice, stylus, or part of the body.

[0033] Next, the analysis unit (130) can evaluate the user's medical literacy by assigning a pre-set score to each item of the user's input answers.

[0034] Specifically, the analysis unit (130) calculates a total score based on the input user's answer using a score set to 0 or 1 point for each option of the question, and can evaluate the medical literacy as low if the total score is lower than or equal to a standard score (e.g., 5 or 3 points), and as high if the total score is higher than or equal to a standard score (e.g., 5 or 3 points).

[0035] Next, the control unit (140) can transmit a control signal to display the previously stored diabetes education content on the display unit (110) according to the user's medical literacy.

[0036] Specifically, the control unit (140) can transmit a control signal to display pre-designated diabetes education content on the display unit (110) depending on whether the user has diabetes and whether their medical literacy is low or high.

[0037] Below, a method for providing medical literacy-based customized education content for diabetes will be explained in more detail using FIGS. 2 to 6.

[0038] FIG. 2 is a flowchart of a method for providing medical literacy-based diabetes-customized educational content according to another embodiment of the present invention.

[0039] As illustrated in FIG. 2, the display unit (110) can display a plurality of medical literacy assessment questions stored in advance to the user (S210). At this time, the medical literacy assessment questions may be of the multiple-choice type that presents two or more options.

[0040] Specifically, the display unit (110) may display multiple medical literacy assessment questions that have been stored by the user's selection, or that the user has never performed a medical literacy test, or that a set amount of time (e.g., 1 year) has passed since the last time the medical literacy test was performed.

[0041] As a result, the user can perform a medical literacy test.

[0042] FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of displaying medical literacy assessment questions for non-diabetics according to another embodiment of the present invention, and FIGS. 4a to 4e are diagrams illustrating an example of displaying medical literacy assessment questions for diabetics.

[0043] As illustrated in FIGS. 3 to 4e, the display unit (110) can display medical literacy assessment questions for diabetics or medical literacy assessment questions for non-diabetics depending on the user's selection.

[0044] Next, the input unit (120) can receive the user's answers for each displayed medical literacy assessment question (S220).

[0045] Specifically, the input unit (120) can receive the user's answers for each evaluation question through a mouse, keyboard, voice, stylus, or part of the body.

[0046] Next, the analysis unit (130) can evaluate the user's medical literacy by assigning a pre-set score to each item of the user's input answers (S230).

[0047] Specifically, the analysis unit (130) calculates a total score based on the input user's answer using a score set to 0 or 1 point for each option of the question, and can evaluate the medical literacy as low if the total score is lower than or equal to a standard score (e.g., 5 or 3 points), and as high if the total score is higher than or equal to a standard score (e.g., 5 or 3 points).

[0048] In addition, the analysis unit (130) can calculate a total score based on the user's answers using the fact that the correct answer in each question is set to 1 point and the incorrect answer to 0 points, and evaluate the user's medical literacy based on the total score.

[0049] According to one embodiment of the present invention, if the user is a non-diabetic, the analysis unit (130) may determine that medical literacy is low if the total score is lower than or equal to a reference score (e.g., 3 points), and may determine that medical literacy is high if the total score exceeds a reference score (e.g., 3 points).

[0050] According to one embodiment of the present invention, if the user is a diabetic, the analysis unit (130) may determine that medical literacy is low if the total score is below a reference score (e.g., 5 points), and may determine that medical literacy is high if the total score exceeds a reference score (e.g., 5 points).

[0051] Next, the control unit (140) can transmit a control signal to display the previously stored diabetes education content on the display unit (110) according to the user's medical literacy (S240).

[0052] Specifically, the control unit (140) can transmit a control signal to display pre-designated diabetes education content on the display unit (110) depending on whether the user has diabetes and whether their medical literacy is low or high.

[0053] Next, the display unit (110) can display diabetes education content stored in advance to the user according to the transmitted control signal (S250).

[0054] Specifically, the display unit (110) can display previously stored daily diabetes education content according to a control signal received from the control unit (140).

[0055] FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example of the sequence of diabetes education content for diabetics according to another embodiment of the present invention.

[0056] As illustrated in FIG. 5, if the user is a diabetic patient, the display unit (110) can display diabetes education content according to the user's medical literacy level based on the received control signal.

[0057] According to one embodiment of the present invention, the display unit (110) may display diabetes content on Mondays from week 1 to week 8 according to the user's medical literacy and alternately display diet or exercise content on Thursdays, and on Monday of week 9, display content for at least one disease to which the user belongs among hypertension, dyslipidemia, geriatric diabetes, gestational diabetes, and young diabetes, and on Thursday, display diet or exercise content.

[0058] Additionally, the display unit (110) may display content regarding the general overview of diabetes complications on Mondays from week 10 to week 13 according to the user's medical literacy, and alternately display diet or exercise content on Thursdays, and from week 14 onwards, display diet content on Mondays and exercise content on Thursdays.

[0059] FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of the sequence of educational content for non-diabetics according to another embodiment of the present invention.

[0060] As illustrated in FIG. 6, the display unit (110) can display diabetes education content for cases of low medical literacy according to the received control signal.

[0061] According to one embodiment of the present invention, the display unit (110) displays diabetes content on Mondays and alternately displays diet or exercise content on Thursdays from the 1st to 8th week of the 1st week of low medical literacy (basic), and on the 9th week Monday, displays content for at least one disease to which the user belongs among hypertension, dyslipidemia, geriatric diabetes, gestational diabetes, and young diabetes, and on Thursdays, displays diet or exercise content.

[0062] Additionally, the display unit (110) can display content on the general overview of diabetes complications on Mondays from week 10 to week 13 when medical literacy is low, and alternately display diet or exercise content on Thursdays, and from week 14 onwards, display diet content on Mondays and exercise content on Thursdays.

[0063] According to an embodiment of the present invention, by providing educational content on diabetes based on the user's medical literacy, the patient's health management can be assisted more smoothly.

[0064] The present invention has been described with reference to the embodiments illustrated in the drawings, but this is merely illustrative, and those skilled in the art will understand that various modifications and equivalent alternative embodiments are possible therefrom. Accordingly, the true technical scope of protection of the present invention should be determined by the technical spirit of the following claims.

[0065] [Explanation of the symbol]

[0066] 100: Medical Literacy-Based Diabetes Personalized Education Content Delivery System

[0067] 110: Display section

[0068] 120: Input section

[0069] 130: Analysis Department

[0070] 140: Control unit

Claims

1. A display unit that displays multiple medical literacy assessment questions or diabetes education content stored in advance to the user; An input unit for receiving user answers for each of the displayed medical literacy assessment questions; An analysis unit that evaluates the user's medical literacy by assigning pre-set scores to each question based on the input answers of the above user; and A medical literacy-based diabetes customized education content provision system comprising a control unit that transmits a control signal to display the previously stored diabetes education content on the display unit according to the medical literacy of the user.

2. In Paragraph 1, The above display unit is, A medical literacy-based diabetes customized education content delivery system that displays multiple medical literacy assessment questions that have been saved by the user's selection, when the user has never performed a medical literacy test, when a preset time has passed since the last time a medical literacy test was performed.

3. In Paragraph 1, The above analysis unit is, A medical literacy-based diabetes customized education content provision system that evaluates medical literacy by calculating a total score based on the user's input, assigning 1 point for a correct answer and 0 points for an incorrect answer for each option, and comparing the total score with a reference score.

4. In Paragraph 3, The above analysis unit is, If the above total score is below the standard score, the user's medical literacy is evaluated as low, and A medical literacy-based diabetes customized education content provision system that evaluates the user's medical literacy as high when the above total score exceeds the standard score.

5. In Paragraph 1, The above control unit is, A medical literacy-based diabetes customized education content delivery system that transmits a control signal to provide pre-designated diabetes education content based on the user's presence of diabetes and medical literacy.

6. A step in which a display unit displays a plurality of medical literacy assessment questions previously stored to the user; A step of receiving user answers for each medical literacy assessment question displayed in the input section; A step in which the analysis unit evaluates the user's medical literacy by assigning pre-set scores to each item based on the user's input answers; A step in which a control unit transmits a control signal to the display unit to display previously stored diabetes education content according to the medical literacy of the user; and A method for providing medical literacy-based diabetes customized education content, comprising the step of the display unit displaying the diabetes education content to a user.

7. In Paragraph 6, The step of displaying the above items is, A method for providing medical literacy-based diabetes customized education content, wherein the user has never performed a medical literacy test, a preset time has elapsed since the last time a medical literacy test was performed, or multiple medical literacy assessment questions are displayed based on the user's selection.

8. In Paragraph 6, The above evaluation step is, A method for providing medical literacy-based customized education content for diabetes that evaluates medical literacy by calculating a total score based on the input user's answer, assigning 1 point for a pre-designated correct answer and 0 points for an incorrect answer for each option, and comparing the total score with a reference score.

9. In Paragraph 8, The above evaluation step is, If the above total score is below the standard score, the user's medical literacy is evaluated as low, and A method for providing medical literacy-based diabetes customized education content that evaluates the user's medical literacy as high when the above total score exceeds the standard score.

10. In Paragraph 6, The above-mentioned transmitting step is, A method for providing medical literacy-based diabetes customized educational content that transmits a control signal to provide pre-designated diabetes educational content based on the user's presence or absence of diabetes and medical literacy.

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