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KMID : 0363620210420010001
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Journal of Korean Oriental Medicine
2021 Volume.42 No. 1 p.1 ~ p.11
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Cold-Heat and Excess-Deficiency Pattern Identification Based on Questionnaire, Pulse, and Tongue in Cancer Patients: A Feasibility Study
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Choi Yu-Jin
Kim Soo-Dam
Kwon O-Jin
Park Hyo-Ju
Kim Ji-Hye
Choi Woo-Su
Ko Myung-Hyun
Ha Su-Jeong
Son Si-Yeon
Park So-Jung
Yoo Hwa-Seung
Jeong Mi-Kyung
Jeong Mi-Kyung
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Abstract
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Objectives: This pilot study aimed to evaluate the agreement between traditional face-to-face Korean medicine (KM) pattern identification and non-face-to-face KM pattern identification using the data from related questionnaires, tongue image, and pulse features in patients with cancer.
Methods: From January to June 2020, 16 participants with a cancer diagnosis were recruited at the one Korean medicine hospital. Three experienced Korean medicine doctors independently diagnosed the participants whether they belong to the cold pattern or not, heat pattern or not, deficiency pattern or not, and excess pattern or not. Another researcher collected KM pattern related data using questionnaires including Cold-Heat Pattern Identification (CHPI), tongue image analysis system, and pulse analyzer. Collected KM pattern related data without participants’ identifier was provided for the three Korean medicine doctors in random order, and non-face-to-face KM pattern identification was carried out. The kappa value between face-to-face and non-face-to-face pattern identification was calculated.
Results: From the face-to-face pattern identification, there were 13/3 cold/non-cold pattern, 4/12 heat/non-heat pattern, 14/2 deficiency/non-deficiency pattern, and 0/16 excess/non-excess pattern participants. In cold/non-cold pattern, kappa value was 0.455 (sensitivity: 0.85, specificity: 0.67, accuracy: 0.81). In heat/non-heat pattern, the kappa value was 0.429 (sensitivity: 0.75, specificity: 0.72, accuracy: 0.75). The kappa value of deficiency/non-deficiency and excess/non-excess pattern was not calculated because of the few participants of non-deficiency, and excess pattern.
Conclusions: The agreement between traditional face-to-face pattern identification and non-face-to-face pattern identification seems to be moderate. The non-face-to-face pattern identification using questionnaires, tongue, and pulse features may feasible for the large clinical study.
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KEYWORD
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Pattern identification, Syndrome differentiation, Cold-Heat pattern, Deficiency-Excess pattern, Telemedicine, Non-face-to-face pattern identification
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