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초록

The purpose of this study was to practically verify the effectiveness of the dementia prevention mobile app by analyzing the psychological and behavioral changes of users of the dementia prevention mobile app through experiments. To achieve the purpose of the study, 160 middle-aged people who use smartphones are divided into 80 people in the experimental group who use the dementia mobile app daily for two weeks and 80 people in the control group who do not use the dementia mobile app. Data was collected through the first questionnaire before the experiment and the second questionnaire after the experiment. Finally, the data used for the analysis were 76 people in the experimental group and 74 in the control group, a total of 150 people. The mobile app for dementia prevention used in this study was an app called “Dementia Check” developed and distributed by the Ministry of Health and Welfare. As a result of analyzing the collected data, it was found that there were significant differences among the groups in all variables in dementia awareness, empowerment for dementia, dementia prevention behavior intention, exercise participation motivation, and exercise continuation intention in the experimental group.

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