JP2014135027A - Health advice device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a health advice device capable of providing an appropriate advice having high usability to an individual desiring to maintain a health and to improve a health condition.SOLUTION: A health advice device displaying an advice for improving a life-style habit includes: a life analysis questionnaire input means for inputting an answer group for a prescribed question group; calculation means for calculating a predicted increase and decrease of the health risk using the answer group input by the life analysis questionnaire input means; influenced answer extraction means for selecting the answer having increased the health risk from the input answer group when the increase of the health risk is predicted; influenced life item display means for displaying the question corresponding to the selected answer or the advice associated with the question.

Description

  The present invention relates to a health advice device and a health advice program for providing advice indicating directions for improving the life to an individual who wants to maintain health and improve health.

  2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, various health advice devices have been proposed for providing advice on health improvement using a computer system.

  Some conventional health advice devices divide individuals into groups based on information on the health status of individuals seeking advice, and provide advice according to the group. However, since such an apparatus focuses only on the resulting health condition, advice may cover multiple items. If the number of advice items is simply reduced to eliminate this, the advice becomes inappropriate because it does not match the living situation.

  In view of this, there has been proposed a method in which a question is made about a living situation in addition to a health condition, and the grouping is performed using both the health condition and the living situation, and advice is given for each group (Patent Document 1). However, since the advice prepared for each group in advance is provided, it does not necessarily correspond to the current living situation, and as a result, the advice is often not effective.

JP 2010-170534 A

  It is an object of the present invention to provide a health advice device and a health advice program that can provide highly useful and appropriate advice to an individual who wants to maintain health and improve health.

  When displaying the advice, the inventor of the present invention points out problems in the current lifestyle, and suggests measures for improving the problems as advice, so that the proposal may be accepted as a result. Based on this idea, the present invention was completed.

That is, the present invention is a health advice device that displays advice for improving lifestyle habits, which is input from a life analysis questionnaire input means for inputting answers to a predetermined question group, and a life analysis questionnaire input means Means for calculating the predicted increase or decrease in health risk using the above-mentioned answer group, and the effect of selecting the answer that increased the health risk from the input answer group when the increase in health risk is predicted There is provided a health advice device having an answer extraction means and an influence life item display means for displaying a question corresponding to a selected answer or an advice associated with the question.
Here, health risk refers to numerical data that can be obtained by health checkups and serves as an indicator of health status. Expressed that the health risk increases when the data changes to a side where health status is bad. And changing to a good side is expressed as a reduction in health risk. More specifically, body fat percentage, blood pressure, blood cholesterol concentration, etc. are health risks. When these values increase, health risks increase, and when they decrease, health risks decrease. .

  In addition to the above configuration, the health advice device of the present invention is preferably configured so that the influence of the answer to the question item on the health risk increases or decreases the risk together with the life state question item that affects the health risk. A risk impact life state database storing the risk impact level, and display means for reading out the risk impact level corresponding to the input answer from the risk impact life state database and displaying it together with the input answer.

  The question items and advice data used in the present invention are preferably updated every certain period.

  According to the health advice device or health advice program of the present invention, it is possible to reliably give appropriate advice to an individual who wants to maintain health and improve his / her health condition.

1 is a system configuration diagram of a personal computer system that realizes a health advice device of the present invention. FIG. It is explanatory drawing of the specific structure of a risk influence lifestyle state database. It is a flowchart which shows operation | movement of a health advice apparatus. It is an example of the screen of the life analysis questionnaire in a health advice apparatus. It is an example of the screen which shows the implementation degree according to healthy life classification. It is another example of the screen which shows the implementation degree according to healthy life classification. It is an example of the screen which shows a visceral fat accumulation ease degree (degree of increase / decrease of the health risk estimated). It is an example of a screen showing behavior with high impact It is a flowchart which shows operation | movement of another embodiment of this invention.

  A preferred first embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

  The health advice device according to the present invention can be realized by using a personal computer system 1 having a hardware configuration shown in FIG. As shown in FIG. 1, the personal computer system 1 includes a control device 2 that controls the entire system, a main storage device 3 and an external storage device 4 that are logically connected to the control device 2 via an electronic circuit, A first input device 6A, which is a keyboard for inputting characters, numerical values, symbols, and the like, and a second input device 6B, which is a mouse device for specifying the position of the screen in association with the screen display, are connected to a memory element to be described later. And a screen memory 7 whose contents are displayed on a liquid crystal display device 9 which is a display device by a display control circuit 8.

  The control device 2 is composed of an LSI element and a peripheral circuit integrally configured with a microprocessor, a bus controller and the like. The main storage device 3 is a well-known circuit block having a DRAM element as a main component. The external storage device 4 is a hard disk device in the first embodiment, and stores a health advice program P for realizing the health advice proposal process according to the present invention, and a part thereof is a risk-affected life state database 20. Configure the data storage area. The risk influence life state database 20 includes an advice information storage area 30. Specifically, the data terminal 5 is realized by a well-known USB standard connection port (USB port), and a non-volatile memory 10 is inserted and used to receive various data from other systems.

  The screen memory 7 is also composed of DRAM elements, like the main storage device 3. In the first embodiment, the display means for displaying a message to the operator is a display control program (display driver) (not shown) built in the liquid crystal display device 9, the screen memory 7, the display control circuit 8, and the external storage device 4. Consists of. The data transferred to the display control program by the health advice program P is temporarily stored in the screen memory 7 and displayed on the liquid crystal display device 9 via the display control circuit 8.

  In addition to writing and reading data to and from each unit, the control device 2 performs direct data transfer using a DMA circuit (not shown) between the main storage device 3, the external storage device 4, and the screen memory 7. The configuration facilitates handling of a large amount of data.

  The health risk handled by the health advice device of this embodiment is the area of visceral fat. Generally, it is said that when the area of visceral fat increases, the health condition deteriorates, and when the area decreases, the health condition improves.

  A specific structure of the risk influence life state database 20 which is one of the features of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.

As shown in FIG. 2, the risk-affected life state database 20 has a tabular structure, and includes a question relating to a life state, a life state classification to which the question belongs, and an influence coefficient corresponding to an answer to the question. It is configured in a form in which there are a plurality of such sets. The questions relate to the living conditions of those who receive health advice, particularly those that are likely to affect health.
In the following, an influence coefficient corresponding to an answer may be simply referred to as an influence coefficient or a risk coefficient. However, in any case, the influence coefficient corresponding to the life state classification and the answer stored in the risk influence life state database 20 or It is the one copied to the storage device.

For example, the question “Eat a lot of vegetables” is stored at the top of the first column, followed by the “meal quality” that is the life state classification to which the question belongs, and the effect corresponding to the answer “applicable” The value of the coefficient, the value of the influence coefficient corresponding to the answer “somewhat applies”, the value of the influence coefficient corresponding to the answer “not applicable”, and the value of the influence coefficient corresponding to the answer “not applicable” follow.
By classifying the question items into a plurality of life state classifications, it becomes easier to grasp what aspects of life should be taken as a general guideline for life improvement, that is, as a large frame.

  The question and the influence coefficient stored in the risk influence life state database 20 are preferably reviewed at regular intervals, for example, once a year, and changed as necessary.

The health advice device 1 realized by the health advice program P is described with reference to the flowchart showing the operation of the health advice device 1 shown in FIG. 3 and the diagrams showing the screens of the liquid crystal display device 9 shown in FIGS. The operation (health advice proposal process) will be described.
The personal computer system 1 functions as each unit of the health advice device 1 in the present embodiment by the health advice program P. In other words, the health advice program P causes the personal computer system 1 to function as the health advice device 1 provided with each means described above or below.

  An operator, that is, a user who wants to obtain health advice using the advice device, uses the first input device 6A or the second input device 6B to start the health advice program P stored in the external storage device 4. When this is done, a screen requesting ID input is displayed on the liquid crystal display device 9. When the operator inputs the ID and password from the first input device according to the instructions on the screen, the program running on the control device 2 refers to a user list (not shown) stored in the external storage device 4 and performs subsequent operations. Judgment whether to allow or not. In the ID confirmation step, when it is determined that the operator is a valid user, the control shifts to step S1 of the life analysis questionnaire.

  When control is transferred to the life analysis questionnaire S1, the life analysis questionnaire input means displays a display prompting the user to answer the question on the liquid crystal display device 9, and the question is displayed in a list form as shown in FIG. According to the display, the operator checks for each question which corresponds to himself / herself. One or more questions may be displayed on the screen at a time. In this embodiment, there are 80 questions, and when the screen is switched eight times, the display of all questions and the input of answers corresponding to each question are completed. As described above, the life analysis questionnaire input means in the present embodiment includes a means for displaying a question and a plurality of answers to the question, a means for inputting an answer selected by the operator of the apparatus from the displayed answers, It has.

  When the life analysis questionnaire S1 ends normally, the degree of implementation (evaluation of expected increase or decrease in health risk) is calculated for each living state classification (ie, {meal quantity / meal quality / meal time / exercise / life}). The life state classification-specific implementation degree calculation step S2, which is a step of displaying, is executed as follows. Here, the implementation level refers to the influence of each life state on the increase or decrease in health risk, and is calculated for each life state classification as described below.

  In the life state classification-specific implementation degree calculation step S2, first, the health risk evaluation means uses the risk influence life state database shown in FIG. The relative degree is evaluated (calculated) for each life state classification. Specifically, the health risk impact coefficient corresponding to the answer selected by the operator is read, and the read impact coefficient is added for each life state classification to calculate a total score, which is calculated from a separate large amount of data and shown in the figure. Normalize by using the average value (average point) and standard deviation for each gender and age saved in the database, multiply by 10 and finally add 50 points. By performing this calculation process, a so-called deviation value is obtained. The influence coefficient has a positive value when it is preferable and a negative value when it is not preferable. As can be easily understood, 50 points is the median, that is, neither good nor bad. Depending on the contents of the question, there are some that do not affect the visceral fat area. In this case, the influence coefficient is set to 0 (zero) for all the answers. The value of the impact on the health risk of each user's life state calculated for each life state classification is the degree of implementation by life state classification, and is displayed on the screen as will be described later. It helps to make people aware of favorable and undesirable points in life.

  Subsequently, in the implementation detail display step S2 ′, the implementation degree for each life state classification calculated is calculated by the life state classification-specific implementation degree display means together with the average data of age and sex stored in a database (not shown). It is displayed at one time in the display format of either a nest chart as shown in FIG. 5 or a bar graph designed as shown in FIG. In this way, by displaying the degree of implementation by life status classification together with average data on a single screen, the operator (user) is better than what he / she has with respect to the average, and what You can easily recognize if the point is bad. In addition, it is preferable that the operator can select in advance which display format is to be used.

  Next, the health risk increase / decrease prediction (evaluation) is calculated by means of calculating the health risk increase / decrease and the means for calculating the degree (hereinafter referred to as health risk increase / decrease predictor), and the calculated health risk increase / decrease prediction. Is displayed by the health risk display means. In this embodiment, the health risk is only an increase in the area of visceral fat, in other words, ease of accumulation. Therefore, in this embodiment, step S3 for displaying the likelihood of visceral fat accumulation is a health risk increase / decrease prediction display step executed by means for displaying the increase / decrease in health risk. In the health risk increase / decrease prediction display step, the health risk increase / decrease prediction is calculated based on the operator's answer to the questionnaire and the risk coefficient.

  In the present embodiment, the life state classification influence degree for each life state classification (the effect of each life state on health risk expressed as a percentage using the life state classification degree calculated by the health risk evaluation means. ) Is multiplied by the degree of implementation by life status classification, and the increase / decrease in health risk is predicted using a health risk increase / decrease prediction means that predicts increase / decrease in health risk.

  In this embodiment, the risk that is calculated and evaluated is only the risk of increasing the visceral fat area, and the risk display shown in FIG. 7 changes according to the value of the calculated result. Specifically, the position of the arrowed circle CWA moves up and down on the screen. At the bottom, health risk deterioration is zero (minimum evaluation of health risk increase prediction), and at the top is health risk deterioration evaluation 100 (health risk increase prediction evaluation is maximum).

  Next, an execution degree versus influence degree display step S4 is executed. The above-described risk coefficient for each life state classification, that is, the sum of the absolute values of the “applicable” influence coefficients of the question is the degree of influence on the evaluation of the health risk increase / decrease prediction of the life state classification. Specifically, for example, in “amount of meal”, the influence coefficient 2a of “to eat a snack”, the influence coefficient 3a of “always eat a full stomach”, and although not shown, the life state classification is “amount of meal”. The sum of the influence coefficients for all “applicable” of the questions being asked is the degree of influence. In this embodiment, one mark is displayed for each degree of influence 20.

  The display of the execution level uses the above-described execution level calculated based on the answer to the operator's question. Specifically, if the above-mentioned implementation degree is 50 points or more, the implementation degree is good, and if it is less than that, the implementation degree is bad. If the good and bad are symbolized as shown in FIG. 8, they are easy to understand and familiar to the operator.

  The health risk increase / decrease prediction means in the present embodiment stores the influence coefficient on the health risk for each answer to each question, the influence coefficient storage means (risk influence life state database) having the aforementioned risk influence life database as a main part. And an influence coefficient reading means for reading out the influence coefficient for the answer selected by the operator from the influence coefficient storage means, and a means for obtaining a deviation value using the read influence coefficient (health risk increase / decrease prediction means) I have.

  In the present embodiment, the implementation status of the operator is further displayed for each life state classification as “action with high influence”. Specifically, it is provided with an influence answer extraction means for extracting a question having a large absolute value of an influence coefficient for each life state classification as “behavior having a high degree of influence”, and the answer extracted by the influence answer extraction means is displayed. The white circles and black circles indicate the operator's implementation status. In the present embodiment, the means for displaying the answer extracted by the influence answer extraction means on the display means 9 together with the white circle and the black circle is the influence life item display means.

  In the life state classification with an impact level of 20 or less, only the question with the maximum absolute value of the impact coefficient is used, and the question with the maximum absolute value of the impact coefficient and the question with the next magnitude are the other questions. "High behavior". In the present embodiment, a preferable state is indicated by a white circle and a preferable state is indicated by a white circle, and an unfavorable state is indicated by a black circle in the “action with high influence” column. When the question is an unfavorable action, the display is changed to a preferable expression in order to make the display of the white circle and the black circle consistent. Specifically, the question corresponding to the “high-impact behavior” “Fried food is up to twice a week” is the question “Eating fried food at least three times a week”. When the “applicable” influence coefficient is negative, “action with high influence” is displayed in place of a preferable action expression recorded in a column (advice storage means) (not shown) of the risk influence life state database. In the present embodiment, the advice information storage area 30 described above constitutes a partial area of the risk-affected life state database 20, and the advice information storage area 30 is an advice storage means. Note that the advice storage means does not necessarily have to be integrated with the risk influence life state database. That is, a pointer to advice storage means may be provided in a part of the risk-affected life state database, and advice may be displayed with reference to the pointer.

Next, regarding the operation (health advice proposing process) in another embodiment (hereinafter referred to as the second embodiment) of the health advice device or health advice program of the present invention, the operation (health advice suggestion) mainly described above. Differences from (Process) will be described. About the same point, the description about embodiment mentioned above is applied suitably. In the second embodiment, the health risk increase / decrease prediction is performed by a simpler method. Hereinafter, the calculation method of the health risk increase / decrease prediction executed by the simple health risk increase / decrease prediction means in the second embodiment will be described. In 2nd Embodiment, there is no implementation detail display step S2 'in embodiment mentioned above. Also, there is no life category-specific implementation degree calculation step S2.
Read the question weighting coefficient of each question stored in the question weighting coefficient database by gender and age, multiply the read question weighting coefficient and the influence coefficient according to the answer to each question input in step S1 of the life analysis questionnaire, All the multiplied results are added to obtain the predicted parameter. This predicted parameter is corrected by a linear expression, and this is taken as the ease of accumulation of visceral fat. The calculation formula for correction is determined so that the calculation result falls within the range of 0 to 100. More specifically, for each question, the maximum value of the positive value of the influence coefficient of the answer multiplied by the question weight coefficient is added, and 50 is divided to obtain the positive correction coefficient. The same calculation is performed for the negative value of the influence coefficient of the answer as the negative correction coefficient. When the predicted parameter calculated by the above method is positive, the positive correction coefficient is multiplied, and when it is negative, the negative correction coefficient is multiplied by 50 and displayed as an increase or decrease in health risk.

  In the second embodiment, by using a simple health risk increase / decrease prediction means, health risk can be calculated without calculating the performance level by life state classification. Can be calculated and displayed at high speed.

As mentioned above, although preferable embodiment of this invention was described, embodiment of this invention is not restricted above. For example, for each screen, the specific display position and size of the element can of course be improved in consideration of easiness to see.
The answer to the question is divided into 4 levels, but it may be 3 levels or 5 levels. In that case, the risk-influenced life state coefficient also has three or five levels for each item, and the column of the influence coefficient in the risk-influenced life state database shown in FIG.
In addition, the life status is divided into three categories: meal, exercise, and life. For example, meals are divided into quantity and quality, more specifically, quantity, quality of food, quality of eating and meal time, Exercise may be divided into daily exercise (aerobic exercise) and sports performed in a gym or the like.

  Further, the answer may be answered by other methods such as a method of inputting a number from the first input means 6A instead of the method of checking the check column. The health advice device may be realized by dividing means and functions into a plurality of computers connected via a network.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Personal computer system 2 Control apparatus 3 Storage apparatus 4 Storage apparatus 20 Risk influence lifestyle state database 30 Advice information storage area (advice storage means)

Claims (6)

A health advice device that displays advice for improving lifestyle,
A life analysis questionnaire input means for inputting a group of answers to a predetermined group of questions;
Means for calculating a predicted increase or decrease in health risk using the answer group input from the life analysis questionnaire input means;
When an increase in health risk is predicted, an influence answer extraction means for selecting an answer that has increased the health risk from an input answer group;
An influence life item display means for displaying a question corresponding to the selected answer or advice associated with the question;
Having health advice device. An advice storage means for storing the advice corresponding to the question item is provided.
The health advice device according to claim 1, wherein the influence life item display means selects and displays either a question of a question group or advice stored in the advice storage means according to the question item.   The health advice device according to claim 1, further comprising means for displaying an increase or decrease in the calculated health risk.   The health advice apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the calculated increase / decrease in health risk is a deviation value in an input answer population. The life analysis questionnaire input means includes means for displaying a question and a plurality of answers to the question, and means for inputting an answer selected by the operator of the apparatus among the displayed answers.
The means for calculating the predicted increase / decrease of the health risk includes an influence coefficient storage means for storing an influence coefficient on the health risk for each answer to each question, and an answer selected by the operator from the influence coefficient storage means. The health advice device according to any one of claims 1 to 4, further comprising: an influence coefficient reading unit that reads an influence coefficient; and a unit that obtains a deviation value using the read influence coefficient.   A health advice program for causing a computer to function as the health advice device according to any one of claims 1 to 4.

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