Development of Questionnaire for Damum Patternization

담음변증(痰飮辨證) 설간(設間) 개발(開發)

  • Park, Jae-Sung (Dept. of Human Informatics of Oriental Medicine, Interdisciplinary Programs, Kyung Hee University) ;
  • Yang, Dong-Hoon (Dept. of Human Informatics of Oriental Medicine, Interdisciplinary Programs, Kyung Hee University) ;
  • Kim, Min-Yong (Dept. of Human Informatics of Oriental Medicine, Interdisciplinary Programs, Kyung Hee University) ;
  • Lee, Sang-Chul (Dept. of Management Information Systems, Korea Christian University) ;
  • Park, Yong-Jae (Dept. of Human Informatics of Oriental Medicine, Interdisciplinary Programs, Kyung Hee University) ;
  • Park, Yeong-Bae
  • 박재성 (경희대학교 학과간협동과정 한방인체정보의학과) ;
  • 양동훈 (경희대학교 학과간협동과정 한방인체정보의학과) ;
  • 김민용 (경희대학교 학과간협동과정 한방인체정보의학과) ;
  • 이상철 (그리스도대학교 경영정보학부) ;
  • 박영재 (경희대학교 학과간협동과정 한방인체정보의학과) ;
  • 박영배 (경희대학교 한의과대학 진단.생기능의학과학교실)
  • Published : 2006.07.31

Abstract

Objectives Damum is a general and fundamental concept in Oriental me야cine that deals with symptoms of diseases. but as far as Damum is concerned there has not been significant researches in terms of clinical medicine but only researches in the field of medical story. Therefore hopefully this study could contributes to the development of Damum which is very essential concept in Oriental medicine. Methods First of all we have made basic twenty-three items list through conducting researches on documents in regards to Damum, and finally designed twenty-nine survey inquiry by so called Delphi study-method that is based on opinions of professional groups. we have conducted a survey of twenty-nine inquirys on sixty-one cases and asked three Oriental medical doctors who are Damum specialists to diagnose and measure clinical values regarding Damum, followed by studying interrelationship between survey results and clinical values. conclusively we have made out a final Damum questionnaire form by selecting significant question items based on the results of the study. Results According to the analysis of the studies, fourteen question items were selected. Conclusions As far as Damum discriminant is concerned, additional verifing processes are needed to be carried out through more clinical cases. And it is through that more clinical studies are needed to be done in regards to Damum.

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