Performance Analysis of Automatic Integrated Long-Range RFID and Webcam System.

In the academic environment, checking attendance can help lecturers better evaluate students' performance in university. Traditional attendance checking has some disadvantages, which are wasting time and effort. The automatic attendance monitoring system, on the other hand, not only can help us solve these drawbacks but also bring a high-accuracy result compared to manually checking. The method uses ultra-high-frequency (UHF) RFID technology with four circularly polarized antennas, combined with the high-definition camera system used for face recognition that allows the system to recognize students' faces. The system will check the attendance of students in offline classes through an RFID reader and camera which are set up in classrooms. In the case of online study in which students learn from home, the system can use students' cameras directly from their laptops and smartphones to recognize their faces and check attendance. The web-based information system has real-time updates with attendance monitoring that allows the lecturer to review or determine the student's attendance status. In the event of unexpected issues on the student side, the system enables lecturers to check attendance manually after receiving the student's request. Our system, furthermore, can automatically generate a weekly report about student's learning status in each class and provide the overall proportion of students' commitment to attending classes for the lecturer. This paper brings some initial simulations of the system to give a more detailed picture of how the new system works and interacts. Besides, this manuscript provides a detailed performance analysis about the system with RFID and camera, then has an evaluation based on class' learning outcome. The time, precision, and accuracy of our system are considered.

Effective strategies to motivate nursing home residents in oral care and to prevent or reduce responsive behaviors to oral care: A systematic review.

BACKGROUND: Poor oral health has been a persistent problem in nursing home residents for decades, with severe consequences for residents and the health care system. Two major barriers to providing appropriate oral care are residents' responsive behaviors to oral care and residents' lack of ability or motivation to perform oral care on their own. OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the effectiveness of strategies that nursing home care providers can apply to either prevent/overcome residents' responsive behaviors to oral care, or enable/motivate residents to perform their own oral care. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We searched the databases Medline, EMBASE, Evidence Based Reviews-Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, CINAHL, and Web of Science for intervention studies assessing the effectiveness of eligible strategies. Two reviewers independently (a) screened titles, abstracts and retrieved full-texts; (b) searched key journal contents, key author publications, and reference lists of all included studies; and (c) assessed methodological quality of included studies. Discrepancies at any stage were resolved by consensus. We conducted a narrative synthesis of study results. RESULTS: We included three one-group pre-test, post-test studies, and one cross-sectional study. Methodological quality was low (n = 3) and low moderate (n = 1). Two studies assessed strategies to enable/motivate nursing home residents to perform their own oral care, and to studies assessed strategies to prevent or overcome responsive behaviors to oral care. All studies reported improvements of at least some of the outcomes measured, but interpretation is limited due to methodological problems. CONCLUSIONS: Potentially promising strategies are available that nursing home care providers can apply to prevent/overcome residents' responsive behaviors to oral care or to enable/motivate residents to perform their own oral care. However, studies assessing these strategies have a high risk for bias. To overcome oral health problems in nursing homes, care providers will need practical strategies whose effectiveness was assessed in robust studies.

Barriers and facilitators in providing oral care to nursing home residents, from the perspective of care aides: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

BACKGROUND: Oral health of nursing home residents is generally poor, with severe consequences for residents' general health and quality of life and for the health care system. Care aides in nursing homes provide up to 80% of direct care (including oral care) to residents, but providing oral care is often challenging. Interventions to improve oral care must tailor to identified barriers and facilitators to be effective. This review identifies and synthesizes the evidence on barriers and facilitators care aides perceive in providing oral care to nursing home residents. METHODS: We systematically searched the databases MEDLINE, Embase, Evidence Based Reviews-Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, CINAHL, and Web of Science. We also searched by hand the contents of key journals, publications of key authors, and reference lists of all studies included. We included qualitative and quantitative research studies that assess barriers and facilitators, as perceived by care aides, to providing oral care to nursing home residents. We conducted a thematic analysis of barriers and facilitators, extracted prevalence of care aides reporting certain barriers and facilitators from studies reporting quantitative data, and conducted random-effects meta-analyses of prevalence. RESULTS: We included 45 references that represent 41 unique studies: 15 cross-sectional studies, 13 qualitative studies, 7 mixed methods studies, 3 one-group pre-post studies, and 3 randomized controlled trials. Methodological quality was generally weak. We identified barriers and facilitators related to residents, their family members, care providers, organization of care services, and social interactions. Pooled estimates (95% confidence intervals) of barriers were: residents resisting care=45% (15%-77%); care providers' lack of knowledge, education or training in providing oral care=24% (7%-47%); general difficulties in providing oral care=26% (19%-33%); lack of time=31% (17%-47%); general dislike of oral care=19% (8%-33%); and lack of staff=22% (13%-31%). CONCLUSIONS: We found a lack of robust evidence on barriers and facilitators that care aides perceive in providing oral care to nursing home residents, suggesting a need for robust research studies in this area. Effective strategies to overcome barriers and to increase facilitators in providing oral care are one of the most critical research gaps in the area of improving oral care for nursing home residents. Strategies to prevent or manage residents' responsive behaviors and to improve care aides' oral care knowledge are especially needed.