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Background: Child and adolescent obesity is increasing worldwide, including Korea, and its importance is being emphasized. Therefore, identifying predictive factors of adolescent obesity is important for preventing obesity and necessary for developing intervention programs.

The present one-group pretest-posttest pre-experimental study verified the effects of a dementia family support program on the families' attitude towards dementia, desire for institutionalization, caregiving behavior and caregiving burden. 11 subjects, who were registered as family members of dementia patients in two dementia institutions in Gyeonggido and wanted to participate in the support program, were included in the program and surveyed from July 1 to September 30, 2016. The program was offered to the families of dementia patients for two hours weekly for six weeks and dealt with understanding dementia, self-healing, communication, living happily, living together and planning the future. The Dementia Attitudes Scale (DAS), the Desire to Institutionalization Questionnaire(DIQ), the Modified Conflict Tactics Scale for caregiving behavior, and the Short Zarit Burden Inventory(S-ZBI) for caregiving burden were used as instruments. The participants' attitude towards dementia, caregiving behavior and caregiving burden were statistically insignificant, whereas their attitude towards and knowledge on dementia ( There was a statistically significant decrease in the desire for institutionalization (t=4.18, p=.002). These findings indicated the support program relieved the dementia families of the caregiving burden and exerted positive effects on the caregiving behavior and the attitude towards dementia of families caring for dementia patients. Also, the program decreased the desire for institutionalization of dementia patients, which in turn increased the possibility for them to live with their families at home. Hence, it is necessary to conduct further studies with larger samples so as to formulate support programs

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[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of fingertip light touch on the postural control in poststroke patients. [Subjects] In the study, the subjects were recruited through a rehabilitation hospital, and 21 patients were screened from among 30 volunteers. [Methods] The subjects participated in an experiment that measured postural sway during the static standing posture without light touch and postural sway during the static standing posture with light touch as follows: visual information not blocked without light touch, visual information blocked without light touch, visual information blocked with light touch using fingertips, and visual information not blocked with light touch using fingertips. The measurements were performed using a force platform. The variables measured by the force platform included sway velocities of the COP in the anterior and posterior directions and, medial and lateral directions and sway velocity moments. [Results] In the results of the study, there were significant differences between the state without light touch and state with light touch in terms of the postural sway velocity and velocity moment under all conditions. The rate of decease of the sway velocity and moment velocity under the eyes closed condition were higher compared with those under the eyes open condition. [Conclusion] Through this study, we confirmed the influence of fingertip light touch on the decrease in postural sway. The results show that active light touch may be supplemental means of improving postural sway in stroke patients.