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| Development and evaluation of questionnaire for clinical epidemiological investigation of kidney essence deficiency syndrome |
| Hits 2240 Download times 1780 Received:March 26, 2013 |
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| DOI
10.11656/j.issn.1672-1519.2013.12.03 |
| Key Words
kidney essence deficiency syndrome;clinical epidemiology;questionnaire |
| Author Name | Affiliation | E-mail | | WANG Hui-jun | Tianjin University of TCM, Tianjin 300193, China | | | LI Xian-tao | Basic Medical College of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou 510405, China | | | ZHAO Tie-niu | Tianjin University of TCM, Tianjin 300193, China | | | YU Chun-quan | Tianjin University of TCM, Tianjin 300193, China | ycq-4@163.com | | MENG Jing-yan | Tianjin University of TCM, Tianjin 300193, China | mengiy@163.com |
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| Abstract
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| [Objective] The aim of this study was to develop a scientific and feasible questionnaire for the clinical epidemiological investigation about kidney essence deficiency syndrome. [Methods] The questionnaire was established and revised based on the studying of literature and responses of the experts. The reliability and validity of it was evaluated.[Results] The epidemiological questionnaire, including 33 items of symptoms and signs of the four diagnostic methods about the kidney essence deficiency syndrome was developed. The validity index of Cronbach's α coefficient was 0.794. After varimax rotation eight factors were primarily yielded with the cumulative contribution rate of the variance of 50.042%. [Conclusion] The development of the questionnaire of epidemiological investigation for kidney essence deficiency syndrome was scientific, reasonable and feasible. |
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