Reliability and validity of a cold-heat pattern questionnaire for traditional Chinese medicine

Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 663-667

  Ryu, Hyunhee ^a   Lee, Haejung ^a   Kim, Honggie ^b   Kim, Jongyeol ^a  

^a Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine (KIOM)   (South Korea)

^b Chungnam National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINESE MEDICINE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COLD HEAT PATTERN QUESTIONNAIRE; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; VALIDITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COLD TEMPERATURE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICINE, CHINESE TRADITIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954203505     PISSN: 10755535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/acm.2009.0331     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Maciocia G. The Foundation of Chinese Medicine. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, 1989.
2. World Health Organization (WHO). WHO Internal Standard Terminologies on Traditional Medicine in The Western Pacific Region. Manila, Philippines: WHO, Regional Office for the Western Pacific, 2007.
3. Hammerschlag R. Methodological and ethical issues in clinical trials of acupuncture. J Altern Complement Med 1998;4:159-171.
4. Coeytaux RR, Chen W, Linemuth CE, et al. Variability in the diagnosis and point selection for persons with frequent headache by Traditional Chinese Medicine acupuncturists. J Altern Complement Med 2006;12:863-872.
5. Alraek T, Baerheim A. The effect of prophylactic acupuncture treatment in women with recurrent cystitis: Kidney patients fare better. J Altern Complement Med 2003;9:979.
6. Hogaboom CJ, Sherman KJ, Cherkin DC. Variation in diagnosis and treatment of low back pain by Traditional Chinese Medicine acupuncturists. Complement Ther Health Med 2001;9:154-166
7. Zell B, Hirata J, Marcus A, et al. Diagnosis of symptomatic postmenopausal women by Traditional Chinese medicine practitioners. Menopause 2000;7:129-134.
8. Kaptchuk TJ. The Web That Has No Weaver. Understanding ChineseMedicine. Chicago: Contemporary Publishing Group, 2000.
9. Park YJ, Park YB. A study on standardization of Bian Zheng by some statistical methods. J Korean Inst Orient Med Diagnosis 2001;5:306-330.
10. Lee S, Park J, Lee H, Kim K. Development and validation of Yin-Deficiency Questionnaire. Am J Chin Med 2007; 35:11-20.
11. Yoo J, Kim J, Kim K, et al. Sasangin Diagnosis Questionnaire: Test of reliability. J Altern Complement Med 2007;13: 111-122.
12. Schnyer RN, Taitano K, Allen JJB. Prevalence of Chinese medicine defined patterns in people with major depression. Proceedings of the 9th Annual Symposium of the Society for Acupuncture Research, 2002.
13. Helene M, Gary J, Bonnie K, et al. Yin scores and yang scores: A new method for quantitative diagnostic evaluation in Traditional Chinese Medicine research. J Altern Complement Med 2004;10:389-395.
14. Kim SK, Park YB. Development of questionnaires for Cold- Heat patternization. J Korean Inst Orient Med Diagnosis 2003;7:64-75.
15. Ryu H, Lee H, Jang E, et al. A study on development of Cold-Heat pattern questionnaire. Korean J Oriental Physiol Pathol 2008;22:1410-1415.
16. Campbell DT, Fiske DW. Convergent and discriminant validation by the multitrait-multimethod matrix. Psychol Bull 1959;56:81-105.
17. Nunnaly JC, Bernstein IH. Psychometric Theory. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1994.
18. Helmstadter GC. Principles of Psychological Measurement. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1964.
19. Hatoum HT, Brazier JE, Akhras KS. Comparison of the HUI3 with the SF-36 preference based SF-6D in a clinical trial setting. Value Health 2004;7:602-609.
20. Smith F. Survey research: Instruments, validity and reliability. In: Research Methods in Pharmacy Practice. London: Pharmaceutical Press, 2002.