@article{ART002707223},
author={Park Seong-sik and Park Eun-kyung and Choi Jae-young},
title={Analysis of Inter-Questionnaire Agreement in Determining Sasang Constitution},
journal={Journal of Sasang Constitution and Immune Medicine},
issn={1226-4075},
year={1999},
volume={11},
number={1},
pages={103-117}
TY - JOUR
AU - Park Seong-sik
AU - Park Eun-kyung
AU - Choi Jae-young
TI - Analysis of Inter-Questionnaire Agreement in Determining Sasang Constitution
JO - Journal of Sasang Constitution and Immune Medicine
PY - 1999
VL - 11
IS - 1
PB - The Society of Sasang Constitution and Immune Medicine
SP - 103
EP - 117
SN - 1226-4075
AB - 1. Background and Purpose : Sasang Constitutional medicine is baon dividing individuals' constitutions into four categories. Determination of an individual's constitution, however, can be different according to who he or she consults with since it depends solely on the examiner's own perception and methods. Currently, the use of self-reporting questionnaires is accepted as a general approach in clinical settings, but the results of different questionnaires tend to be inconsistent. In this study, we investigated how different the results of the questionnaires are and what the inter-questionnaires agreement is.
2. Method : 1595 peoples who volunteered our research from 1997 to 1999 and were evaluated disease free were asked to mark out three questionnaires: Sasang Pattern Identification Questionnaire, QSCC I and QSCCII(QSCC I was completed by 348 patients only).
3. Results and Conclusions : Three questionnaires above produced different results as excepted. In Sasang Pattern Identification Questionnaire, the Soeumin accounted for 55.9%. With the modified version of Sasang Pattern Identification Questionnaire, the Taeumin was the majoriy(39.1 %) and, QSCCII also showed similar results(34.8% of Taeumin). In contrast, the QSCC I revealed the majority consisted of the Soyangin (59.1 %).
In terms of analysis on inter-questionnaire agreement, Sasang Pattern Identification Questionnaire and its modified version showed the highest agreement of 66.3, followed by 55.6% of QSCCII and the modified version from Sasang Pattern Identification Questionnaire.
Therefore, we concluded that the ideal choice to determine an individual's constitution, as far as questionnaires go, is to take results from both the modified version from Sasang Pattern Identification Questionnaire and QSCCII. We found the use of QSCC I can be confusing to reach a satisfactory agreement.
KW - Sasang Constitution;Questionnaire;QSCC I;QSCCII;Inter-questionnaire agreement
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Park Seong-sik, Park Eun-kyung and Choi Jae-young. (1999). Analysis of Inter-Questionnaire Agreement in Determining Sasang Constitution. Journal of Sasang Constitution and Immune Medicine, 11(1), 103-117.
Park Seong-sik, Park Eun-kyung and Choi Jae-young. 1999, "Analysis of Inter-Questionnaire Agreement in Determining Sasang Constitution", Journal of Sasang Constitution and Immune Medicine, vol.11, no.1 pp.103-117.
Park Seong-sik, Park Eun-kyung, Choi Jae-young "Analysis of Inter-Questionnaire Agreement in Determining Sasang Constitution" Journal of Sasang Constitution and Immune Medicine 11.1 pp.103-117 (1999) : 103.
Park Seong-sik, Park Eun-kyung, Choi Jae-young. Analysis of Inter-Questionnaire Agreement in Determining Sasang Constitution. 1999; 11(1), 103-117.
Park Seong-sik, Park Eun-kyung and Choi Jae-young. "Analysis of Inter-Questionnaire Agreement in Determining Sasang Constitution" Journal of Sasang Constitution and Immune Medicine 11, no.1 (1999) : 103-117.
Park Seong-sik; Park Eun-kyung; Choi Jae-young. Analysis of Inter-Questionnaire Agreement in Determining Sasang Constitution. Journal of Sasang Constitution and Immune Medicine, 11(1), 103-117.
Park Seong-sik; Park Eun-kyung; Choi Jae-young. Analysis of Inter-Questionnaire Agreement in Determining Sasang Constitution. Journal of Sasang Constitution and Immune Medicine. 1999; 11(1) 103-117.
Park Seong-sik, Park Eun-kyung, Choi Jae-young. Analysis of Inter-Questionnaire Agreement in Determining Sasang Constitution. 1999; 11(1), 103-117.
Park Seong-sik, Park Eun-kyung and Choi Jae-young. "Analysis of Inter-Questionnaire Agreement in Determining Sasang Constitution" Journal of Sasang Constitution and Immune Medicine 11, no.1 (1999) : 103-117.
