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| Reliability and validity of questionnaire about five viscerae health based on function identification of Zang Fu-organs in TCM |
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| DOI
10.11656/j.issn.1672-1519.2014.09.03 |
| Key Words
five viscerae of TCM;questionnaire;entry selection;reliability and validity |
| Author Name | Affiliation | E-mail | | YUAN Jia-min | Guangdong Province Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medical, Guangzhou 510120, China | | | DAI Hong | Health Care Office, Guard Bureau, The People's Liberation Army General Staff, Beijing 100017, China | | | HUANG Li | Guangdong Province Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medical, Guangzhou 510120, China | | | LIN Ming-ming | Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Education System for Seven Years of 2008, Guangzhou 510405, China | | | SUN Yu-jiao | Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Education System for Seven Years of 2008, Guangzhou 510405, China | | | LUO Cui-wen | Health Care Office, Guard Bureau, The People's Liberation Army General Staff, Beijing 100017, China | | | YANG Zhi-min | Guangdong Province Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medical, Guangzhou 510120, China | yangyo@vip.tom.com |
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| [Objective] To establish a self-evaluated questionnaire about the health condition of five viscerae, screen and optimize the en-tries and test the reliability and validity of the questionnaire. [Methods] Under the guiding of TCM theory and according to the physiolog-ic functions and the pathologic manifestations of five viscerae system the self-evaluated questionnaire was established and the reliability and validity were investigated pre-clinically. [Results] Based on the theory of heart-small intestine system, the liver-gallbladder system, spleen-stomach system, lung-large intestine system and kidney-urinary bladder system 25 entries were established in the questionnaire about the health of five viscerae. The clinical survey response rate was 82.43%. The reliability of Alpha was 0.783. Guttman Split-Half Coefficient was 0.777, KMO=0.76, Spherical test=1 554.78, P<0.05. The results showed in 9 dimensions and the cumulative contribution was 59.15%. [Conclusion] The questionnaire about the health of five viscerae possessed a good reliability and validity, suitable for the application in the investigation of the function and health condition of Zang and Fu in TCMindividually. |
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