Development of health management system with recording daily living habits and body compositions

Abstract

It is difficult for university students to maintain their health. Department of health management was opened at April 2018 in Tokai university, Japan. About two hundred students entered it last year. Health management system was developed to maintain their health through the college life. The system is named THINKss (Tokai Health INtelligence Knowledge Support System). The number of registered students increased about four hundred this year. Every student can record their daily physical and mental conditions, meal photos with the time, body temperature, blood pressure, bone density, body compositions on their smartphone. If they use activity trackers with a wrist-based heart rate sensor (Garmin co. ltd.), their daily activities and sleeping status are corrected through API automatically. The weather information around university is also recorded everyday. Every student can browse own measurements on their smartphones. Because physical status includes cold symptoms (sneeze, throat pain, cough, fatigue, articular pain, muscle pain, chill, and body temperature), the system can recommend visiting a clinic. Because three meal photos are shown alongside, the balance of the meals is known. It may improve their meals. Because the activity tracker records advanced sleeping status (rem, light, deep, and moving), the relationships between mental conditions and sleeping status should be analyzed. Our previous study for common workers showed that mental status related with sleeping status, taking lunch of convenience-store, standard deviation of time of taking lunch, and oversensitivity to noise. Relationships between body composition changes and the lifestyles should be analyzed for university students. Some alert logics for body composition changes and exacerbating mental conditions may be provided based on the evidences from cumulative data of the health management system. These evidence-based alerts will contribute to maintain student’s health through a college life. Key messages Health management system was developed to maintain student’s health through the college life. Evidence-based alerts will contribute to maintain student’s health through a college life.

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