Validity and Reliability of Health Status Questionnaire under Syndrome Differentiation System

VernacularTitle:《五维二步健康状态中医测评量表》的信效度评价
Author: Xiaqiu WU ; Jingqing HU ; Aining YIN ; Yating AI ; Jin PENG
Publication Type:Journal Article
Keywords: Preventive treatment; health status evaluation; questionnaire; validity and reliability
From: World Science and Technology-Modernization of Traditional Chinese Medicine 2015;(2):306-310
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: This study was aimed to evaluate the reliability and validity of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Self Rate Health Assessment Questionnaire (TCM-SRHAQ). A total of 859 middle age and aged cases were enrolled in a cross-sectional study, which were evaluated by the questionnaire. The salivary level of ɑ-amylase was tested at the same time. The results showed that the split-half reliability coefficient was 0.91, which can highly differentiate the health level of the crowd. The spearman correlation coefficients between items in the “spleen deficiency” sub-scale were all higher than 0.3. While the correlation coefficients between items were less than 0.25. Salivary level of ɑ-amylase was used as indicator. The “spleen deficiency” sub-scale showed high validity in identifying spleen-qi deficiency people from healthy people. It was concluded that TCM-SRHAQ showed good reliability and validity in this study, which indicated it can be used as a valuable measurement for assessing different types of health status, especially the spleen-qi deficiency type.