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KMID : 0387420150260030283
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Korean Society of Oriental Neuropsychiatry
2015 Volume.26 No. 3 p.283 ~ p.292
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The Evaluation of Instrument for Cold-Heat & Deficiency-Excess Pattern Identification of Dementia
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Heo Eun-Jung
Lee Sang-Won
Jeon Won-Kyung
Lyu Yeoung-Su
Kang Hyung-Won
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Abstract
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Objectives: The study aimed to test the validity and reliability of the questionnaire for cold-heat & deficiency-excess
pattern identification of dementia and establish a new version of the questionnaire.
Methods: Mean, standard deviation, skewness, internal consistency, correlation and t-test of the 26 items derived from previous study was analyzed in 20 dementia patients. The items with Cronbach-α coefficient below 0.7 were modified. Thus, we established a new version of the questionnaire consisting of 20 items.
Results: Cronbach-α of each cold, heat, deficiency and excess questionnaire was 0.662, ?0.229, 0.722 and 0.778, respectively. The correlation coefficient between cold, heat, deficiency and excess was less than 0.4 and correlation coefficient between dementia and cold, deficiency was 0.518. On t-test, the t-value of cold, deficiency and dementia was ?2.196.
Conclusions: The results indicated that cold-heat, deficiency-excess questionnaires showed satisfactory discriminant validity. In addition, there was correlation between dementia and cold, deficiency. Finally, we established a new version of the questionnaire for cold-heat, deficiency-excess pattern identification that consisted of 20 items.
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KEYWORD
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Pattern identification, Dementia, Neurocognitive disorder, Cold-Heat, Deficiency-Excess
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