Evaluation and Interpretation of 9 Body Constitution Scores of CCMQ-J by Seven Independent Questionnaires

Guang Shi; Hoko Kyo; Toshihiro Kawasaki; Shigehiko Kanaya; Mariko Sato; Saki Tokuda-kakutani; Hiroshi Watanabe; Norihito Murayama; Minako Ohashi; Md Altaf-ul-amin; Naoaki Ono; Hiroki Tanaka; Satoshi Nakamura; Kazuo Uebaba; Nobutaka Suzuki; Ming Huang

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Evaluation and Interpretation of 9 Body Constitution Scores of CCMQ-J by Seven Independent Questionnaires

VernacularTitle:Evaluation and Interpretation of 9 Body Constitution Scores of CCMQ-J by Seven Independent Questionnaires
Author: Guang SHI ¹ ; Hoko KYO ¹ ; Toshihiro KAWASAKI ² ; Shigehiko KANAYA ¹ ; Mariko SATO ¹ ; Saki TOKUDA-KAKUTANI ³ ; Hiroshi WATANABE ⁴ ; Norihito MURAYAMA ¹ ; Minako OHASHI ⁴ ; Md ALTAF-UL-AMIN ⁴ ; Naoaki ONO ⁴ ; Hiroki TANAKA ¹ ; Satoshi NAKAMURA ¹ ; Kazuo UEBABA ¹ ; Nobutaka SUZUKI ³ ; Ming HUANG ¹
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1. Graduate School of Science and Technology, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
2. Department of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Clinical R&D, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medical Science
3. Data Science Center, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
4. Suntory Global Innovation Center Research Group
Keywords: CCMQ-J; healthcare questionnaires; data science; crowdsourcing; Partial Least Squares method (PLS)
From:Japanese Journal of Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2019;16(2):79-93
CountryJapan
Language:English
Abstract: In this study, we proposed an approach to interpret the classification of body constitution based on the Japanese Version of Constitution in Chinese Medicine Questionnaire (CCMQ-J) in terms of an augmented questionnaire combining seven independent questionnaires. The augmented questionnaire consists of 254 questions in terms of seven categories of attributes, which are the (i) basic information (BI), (ii) disease (DI), (iii) social factors (SO), (iv) mental factors (ME), (v) dietary habits (DH), (vi) sleeping state (SL), and (vii) sub-health (SH). The partial least square (PLS) regression has been adopted to model the correlations between the scores of body constitutions and the questions, and their results show that the body constitution can be represented by the linear combination of the questions substantially (correlation coefficients between the true and predicted constitutions are all above 0.7). Moreover, by using the crowdsourcing technique in data collection, a total of 851 samples (350 males and 501 females between 20 and 85 years old) samples with diverse geographical backgrounds in Japan have been collected, from which new medical implications have been extracted through the discussion in a Traditional Chinese Medicine standpoint. This study serves as a crucial step for validating the philosophy of ancient Chinese medicine by the state-of-the-art information science techniques and facilitating the use of the CCMQ-J in public healthcare.