Ahmad Kamaruddin, Saadi and Yaakob, Abdul Malek and Md Nasir, Nor Anis Nadhirah and Abdul Rahman, Siti Fatimah (2021) A Preliminary Study on Understanding the Consumptions of Therapeutic Essential Oils During Covid-19 Pandemic Among Adults Using ANN. Journal of Technology and Operations Management, 16 (2). pp. 76-87. ISSN 2590-4175 (Online)

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Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has emphasized the significance of utilizing essential oils (EO) as one of the holistic ways of supporting and enhancing health. As a consequence of growing knowledge of connected health concerns, people all over the world are looking for natural ways to avoid different ailments. It has been proven that excellent health and psychological awareness increase the human body's immune response, therefore boosting disease resistance. Essential oils are derived in a number of ways from valued plants containing active chemicals with medicinal qualities. In Malaysia, many have used EO in their daily lives. This paper identifies the hierarchy of importance among factors which contribute towards the usage frequency of essential oils in Malaysia using an artificial neural network. Two-layer neural network (NN) models have been applied, which are multilayer perceptron (MLP) and radial basis function (RBF). Based on the analysis done, RBF-NN performed the best with SSE=4.436 and RE=0.548. It can be concluded that, based on sensitivity analysis, the top five factors toward usage frequency are consumption, age, external use, clinic visit, and occasion, with normalized importance of 100%, 90.8%, 89.3%, 68.2%, and 42.2% respectively.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Consumption, therapeutic essential oils, COVID-19, adults
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Divisions:	School of Technology Management & Logistics
Depositing User:	Mrs Nurin Jazlina Hamid
Date Deposited:	02 Mar 2023 11:15
Last Modified:	02 Mar 2023 11:15
URI:	https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/29183

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