Journal of Sasang Constitutional Medicine (사상체질의학회지)

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A Study on the Reliability and Validity test of the QSCC II + (Revised Questionnaire for the Sasang Constitution Classification)

개정(改定)된 사상체질분류검사지(四象體質分類檢査紙)II의 신뢰도(信賴度)와 타당도(妥當度)에 대한 연구(硏究)

  • Choi, Kyung-Ju (Kyung Hee Medical Center Dep. of Sasang Constitutional Medicine) ;
  • Choi, Yang-Sik (Kyung Hee Medical Center Dep. of Sasang Constitutional Medicine) ;
  • Cha, Jae-Hoon (Kyung Hee Medical Center Dep. of Sasang Constitutional Medicine) ;
  • Hwang, Min-Woo (Kyung Hee Medical Center Dep. of Sasang Constitutional Medicine) ;
  • Lee, Soo-Kyung (Kyung Hee Medical Center Dep. of Sasang Constitutional Medicine) ;
  • Go, Byeong-Hui (Kyung Hee Medical Center Dep. of Sasang Constitutional Medicine) ;
  • Song, Il-Byung (Kyung Hee Medical Center Dep. of Sasang Constitutional Medicine)
  • 최경주 (경희대학교 부속한방병원 사상체질과) ;
  • 최양식 (경희대학교 부속한방병원 사상체질과) ;
  • 차재훈 (경희대학교 부속한방병원 사상체질과) ;
  • 황민우 (경희대학교 부속한방병원 사상체질과) ;
  • 이수경 (경희대학교 부속한방병원 사상체질과) ;
  • 고병희 (경희대학교 부속한방병원 사상체질과) ;
  • 송일병 (경희대학교 부속한방병원 사상체질과)
  • Published : 2006.04.30
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Abstract

1. Objectives This is a statistical study on the Reliability and Validity of the Revised Questionnaire for the Sasang Constitution classification(QSCC II +). 2. Methods To analyze the reliability; we gathered the results of the QSCC II + of 266 people. Each person took the questionnaire three times, and the interval of the examinations were about one year. With the results, we used stratified analysis to check up the consistency rate of three examinations, and analyzed the tendency of agreement by crosstabs to get the kappa value. For the validity, we gathered the results of the QSCC II + of 587 people who were Taeumin, Soyangin, Soeumin. They took the questionnaire once, and SCM specialists strictly examined to diagnose their Sasang constitutions. We compare their results of the QSCC II + to the diagnostic result of their Sasang constitutions, and analyzed by crosstabs to get the rate of accuracy of the QSCC II +, and the kappa value for the measure of agreements. 3. Results and Conclusions The expected rate to get the same results was 54.5% in Soyangin, 68.1% in Taeumin, 65.7% in Soeumin, and kappa value was $0.311{\sim}0.414$, which means the reliability of the QSCC II + is analytically significant. The accuracy of the results of QSCC II +, compared to the diagnosis of the SCM specialists, was 58.4%, but increased up to 60.8%, and validity also became moderately good(K=0.412) by age limitation. Because in the 70's results of the QSCC II + isn't likely to agree to the diagnosis of the SCM specialists.

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