Orawit Thinnukool

First Aid Literacy Mobile Application Development

First aid treatment in medical emergencies is very important especially in serious injuries, which can increase the survival of emergent patients and reduce risk of permanent disability. The primary first aid procedures provide practical guidelines of the initial care to a person suffering an injury or illness by following the standard method of first aid before secondary care. Nowadays, mobile phone could be a useful tool to provide essential information and a quick reference in first aid. The research questions are how appropriate design of an application should be to suit a first aid leaning tool? What necessary functions for someone to deal with any unexpected situations or accidents should be? The purpose of this study is to develop the First Aid Literacy Mobile Application (FALMA) by using the rapid prototyping methodology together with the Ionic framework. The application has been designed by considering necessary functions such as location service and first aid treatment information. The result of the development and testing are discussed.

The Use of Cyberbullying Mobile Application to Increase Perceived Knowledge of Cyberbullying Among Adolescents

The aim of this study was to develop a research-based mobile application to increase perceived knowledge of Thai adolescents on cyberbullying. The proposed mobile application is called Cyberbullyin...

Pediatric Fluid Therapy Calculator Mobile Application (PFTC)

Calculation of fluid therapy is one of the most important aspects of treatment for pediatric patients, especially newborns. Highly accurate computation of fluid intake must be performed for appropriate medication. Patients who are treated by fluid therapy with intravenous substances or through the gastrointestinal tract generally receive medicine in form of injections, oral medicine and other substances including food and milk et al. Ability to calculate accurately in monitoring fluid therapy for pediatric patients has become an important skill for pharmacists. Normally, to perform fluid therapy calculation, a calculator together with a comparison chart and specific criteria from text books or formulas for calculation fluid therapy injections are required. This traditional practice is inappropriate at the point of care for rapid calculations for volume replacement in a true pediatric emergency. This research aims to develop a mobile application to calculate fluid therapy in pediatric patients, called Pediatric Fluid Therapy Calculator (PFTC). Holliday-Segar equation was applied to develop the algorithm for calculation. The application consists of four main functions: patient information management function, quick fluid therapy calculation function, alarm/allergy medicine notification function and information transferring function. The application was evaluated by experts and users using a questionnaire in order to measure the application performance in terms of quality and satisfaction which the result of both were satisfied. The proposed PFTC mobile application can be used to rapid calculate fluid therapy in pediatric patients for assisting medications or clinical practice.

Modelling urban growth over time using grid-digitized method with variance inflation factors applied to spatial correlation

Analysis of land use change over time is useful information to support urban planning and management policies. Most land use modelling studies have used polygonal data structure. The main limitation of polygonal data structure is that it is difficult to measure changes in land use. This study proposes another method for predicting land use change. This method is based on an analog-to-digital conversion which replaces polygonal shapes by coded grid points. The method is applied to data from a survey of Phuket province from 1967 to 2009 where land use was classified broadly as forest, agriculture, urban, water bodies and miscellaneous land. Logistic regression was used to predict a binary land use outcome (urban/other), and location combined with land use at a previous survey was a determinant. To account for correlation in land use amongst nearby plots of land, variance inflation factors were used to compute standard errors of proportions of urban growth. The result of the present study discloses that greater urbanization was observed in the southern parts of Phuket during the period of study, and surprisingly, that reforestation occurred in 1985–2000. This study shows that analog-to-digital conversion methods are useful approaches to develop appropriate statistical models for land use change.

Attitude and Opinion of Bicycle-Helmet Signal

This paper aims to studies the opinion, attitude and compliance of cyclists who ride a bicycle in Chiang Mai city, Thailand, with a Bicycle-Helmet Signal (BHS). The purpose of BHS is to help decreasing accidents for cyclists. The device automatically shows turning signal when cyclists lean their head to the left or right-hand side. The findings are based on a sample size of 30 which were taken from the local cyclists. Two groups have been separated to test the confidence, the group of cyclists using BHS and the other cyclists who use the same road with the first group. The results of five sections of questionnaires have been analyzed and show the quality of BHS. The details of opinions, attitudes and compliance are valuable for the design of BHS which provides safety on the road.