Selection of the best thermal massage treatment for diabetes by using fuzzy analytical hierarchy process / Norpah Mahat and Syafiah Ahmad

Mahat, Norpah and Ahmah, Syafiah (2017) Selection of the best thermal massage treatment for diabetes by using fuzzy analytical hierarchy process / Norpah Mahat and Syafiah Ahmad. Journal of Computing Research and Innovation (JCRINN), 2 (1): 4. pp. 23-28. ISSN 2600-8793

Abstract

Diabetes is a condition in which the human blood glucose (sugar) level is abnormally high due to the lack of insulin produced by the pancreas. As diabetes has been claimed to be a disease that is incurable, researchers have come out with numerous alternatives in making it curable and one of them is thermal massage treatment. This treatment refers to the application of chiropractic where it focuses on realigning the spine where diabetes is claimed to be related to the misalignment of thoracic 7 (T7). The objective of this study is to identify and select the best and most effective thermal massage treatment session(s) required for both T1D and T2D patients of different high glucose level in the blood to be reduced to the normal glucose level by using thermal massager. This study is conducted for the diabetic patients who receive treatments from Ceragem Healthcare Centre on how to optimise their thermal massage treatments to normalise their glucose level. Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) is utilised in t his type of selection problem mainly due to the reliable results produced for the imprecise and uncertain preferences of the users in which able to be expressed as a fuzzy set (triangular fuzzy number). The findings indicated that the most significant criteria for effective thermal massage is determined by the “number of treatment session (per day)” where the best thermal massage treatment is derived from the normalised fuzzy weight of both criteria and sub - criteria.

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Item Type: Article
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Mahat, Norpah
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Ahmah, Syafiah
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Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics > Fuzzy logic
R Medicine > RC Internal Medicine > Diabetes Mellitus
R Medicine > RM Therapeutics. Pharmacology > Physical medicine. Physical therapy. Including massage, exercise, occupational therapy, hydrotherapy, phototherapy, radiotherapy, thermotherapy, electrotherapy
Divisions: Universiti Teknologi MARA, Perlis > Arau Campus > Faculty of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
Journal or Publication Title: Journal of Computing Research and Innovation (JCRINN)
UiTM Journal Collections: UiTM Journal > Journal of Computing Research and Innovation (JCRINN)
ISSN: 2600-8793
Volume: 2
Number: 1
Page Range: pp. 23-28
Keywords: Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process, Diabetes, Thermal massage
Date: 2017
URI: https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/53990
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