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KMID : 0363620060270030145
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Journal of Korean Oriental Medicine
2006 Volume.27 No. 3 p.145 ~ p.150
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A Study on Reproducibility of Responses to the Questionnaire for Sasang Constitution Classification II (QSCC II)
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Hwang Deok-Sang
Cho Jung-Hoon
Lee Chang-Hoon
Jang Jun-Bock
Lee Kyung-Sub
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Abstract
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Purpose: This study was conducted to investigate the reproducibility of responses to the QSCC II.
Methods: Subjects have been tested by QSCC II for 2 or 3 successive years in Kangnam Korean Hospital at Kyunghee University from January 2002 to December 2005. We analyzed constitutions of the same subjects of each year tested.
Results: In the second year of QSCC II assessment, 333 of the total 584 subjects were classed as the same constitutions as in their first test. The reproducibility was thus 56.88%. After the third year of QSCC II, 45 of a total 81 subjects were in the same constitutions. The reproducibility was thus 55.56%.
Conclusions: We have found that the reproducibility of QSCC II is about 56%, so there is a severe limitation to diagnosis of constitution by QSCC II. Therefore, we must analyze constitutions through multiple objective methods.
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KEYWORD
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Sasang constitution, QSCC II, reproducibility, questionnaire
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