Enhancing Maritime Professional Training: Integrating Digital Health Perspectives for Improved Outcomes

Abstract

This paper develops a comprehensive training platform for maritime professionals, emphasizing the integration of digital health concepts. The platform, built on JavaEE, incorporates principles of education ecology, treating the training platform as a vital component of a broader ecological system. This system encompasses a diverse array of training subjects, environmental factors, and ecological elements, structured into a front-end module for user interaction and a system management module for operational oversight. Incorporating digital health into this maritime training platform reflects an innovative approach, aligning with contemporary needs for health-awareness in nautical professions. The platform's performance was rigorously tested, demonstrating stability under high task volumes, with system response times averaging around 40 seconds during simultaneous multiple tasks execution, thereby ensuring a seamless training experience. A comparative study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of this digital health-focused training approach. Maritime professionals were divided into two groups: an experimental group utilizing the new training platform and a reference group following traditional training methods. The results were significant – the experimental group scored an average of 35.6, which was 4.3 points higher than the reference group's average of 31.3, surpassing the threshold of 0.5 for statistical significance. These findings validate the efficacy of incorporating digital health perspectives into maritime professional training. By embracing this approach, the platform not only enhances the technical and navigational skills of maritime professionals but also equips them with essential knowledge and practices in digital health, a crucial aspect in today's technology-driven maritime industry. This innovative training methodology paves the way for developing more well-rounded, health-conscious maritime professionals, equipped to handle the challenges of modern nautical environments.