Reliability and Validity of a Cold–Heat Pattern Questionnaire for Traditional Chinese Medicine

Ryu, Hyunhee; Lee, Haejung; Kim, Honggie; Kim, Jong-Yeol

doi:10.1089/acm.2009.0331

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“…This has complicated the evaluation of effectiveness and hindered the collection of reliable evidence. In general, TCM uses the following four methods to formulate a comprehensive diagnosis for patients: inquiry, inspection, auscultation and olfaction, and palpation [5, 22]. Hence, it is difficult to determine whether it is possible to make a diagnosis based merely on the FVS, which is an inquiry method.…”

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Validity of a Diagnostic Scale for Acupuncture: Application of the Item Response Theory to the Five Viscera Score

Tomura

Yoshimasu

Fukumoto

et al. 2013

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

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In acupuncture therapy, diagnosis, acupoints, and stimulation for patients with the same illness are often inconsistent among between Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) practitioners. This is in part due to the paucity of evidence-based diagnostic methods in TCM. To solve this problem, establishment of validated diagnostic tool is inevitable. We first applied the Item Response Theory (IRT) model to the Five Viscera Score (FVS) to test its validity by evaluating the ability of the questionnaire items to identify an individual's latent traits. Next, the health-related QOL scale (SF-36), a suitable instrument for evaluating acupuncture therapy, was administered to evaluate whether the FVS can be used to make a health-related diagnosis. All 20 items of the FVS had adequate item discrimination, and 13 items had high item discrimination power. Measurement accuracy was suited for application in a range of individuals, from healthy to symptomatic. When the FVS and SF-36 were administered to other subjects, a part of which overlap with the first subjects, we found an association between the two scales, and the same findings were obtained when symptomatic and asymptomatic subjects were compared regardless of age and sex. In conclusion, the FVS may be effective in clinical diagnosis.

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confidence: 99%

Validity of a Diagnostic Scale for Acupuncture: Application of the Item Response Theory to the Five Viscera Score

Tomura

Yoshimasu

Fukumoto

et al. 2013

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

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“…Although developing diagnostic questionnaires is the common problem of almost all Traditional medicine cultures, there are some studies that have attempted to make standard diagnostic tools in this field (16)(17)(18)(19)(20). However, there are only a few studies in PM trying to standardize the diagnosis (5) and a methodological study has not been done up to now.…”

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The Relationship Between Mizaj and Its Indices in Persian Medicine

Mojahedi

Alipour

Mozaffarpur

2018

Iran Red Crescent Med J

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Background: As personalized medicine is developing, similar concepts in Persian medicine need standardization. Objectives: The aim of this study was to compare the correlation of ten criteria of Mizaj assessment with Mizaj determined by experts. Methods: In this cross-sectional methodological research, 74 medical student volunteers were examined by 10 expert raters. The agreement between each ten indices and total Mizaj were assessed with the spearman correlation coefficient (r) and weighted by the kappa coefficient (wk). Results: Among ten indices, the largest agreement was observed amongst indices of psychic function, impressibility, physical function and physique with total warm or cold Mizaj and thus amongst indices of muscle and fat mass, touch and physique with total

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“…A zsenget HKO szindrómának vagy mintázatnak nevezi, a diszharmonikus szimptóma vagy jel megjelenési formája. A kü-lönböző zsengek különböző kezelési stratégiákat igé-nyelnek [4,[6][7][8].…”

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A hagyományos kínai fitoterápia értelmezése és beillesztése a nyugati típusú orvoslásba az emberi genom ismeretének birtokában

Blázovics

2018

Orvosi Hetilap

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The terminology of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is hardly interpretable in the context of human genome, therefore the human genome program attracted attention towards the Western practice of medicine in China. In the last two decades, several important steps could be observed in China in relation to the approach of traditional Chinese and Western medicine. The Chinese government supports the realization of information databases for research in order to clarify the molecular biology level to detect associations between gene expression signal transduction pathways and protein-protein interactions, and the effects of bioactive components of Chinese drugs and their effectiveness. The values of TCM are becoming more and more important for Western medicine as well, because molecular biological therapies did not redeem themselves, e.g., in tumor therapy. Orv Hetil. 2018; 159(18): 696-702.

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Reliability and Validity of a Cold–Heat Pattern Questionnaire for Traditional Chinese Medicine

Cited by 72 publications

References 11 publications

Validity of a Diagnostic Scale for Acupuncture: Application of the Item Response Theory to the Five Viscera Score

Validity of a Diagnostic Scale for Acupuncture: Application of the Item Response Theory to the Five Viscera Score

The Relationship Between Mizaj and Its Indices in Persian Medicine

A hagyományos kínai fitoterápia értelmezése és beillesztése a nyugati típusú orvoslásba az emberi genom ismeretének birtokában

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