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KMID : 0878220140260020146
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Journal of Sasang Constitutional Medicine
2014 Volume.26 No. 2 p.146 ~ p.155
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The Agreement in Cold-Heat and Health Status among Sasang Constitutional Experts in Diagnosis of Sasang Pathological Symptoms
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Jin Hee-Jeong
Kim Sang-Hyuk
Dong Sang-Oak
Jang Eun-Su
Lee Si-Woo
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Abstract
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Objectives: In Sasang Constitutional medicine(SCM), it is an important factor to assess the degree of cold/heat and healthy status. We purposed to check the agreement among the experts on the assessment of cold/heat and healthy status.
Methods : Six SCM experts and 10 healthy volunteers were recruited for this study. The SCM experts had an interviewed with each volunteer in the similar condition like that of the actual clinic. And then the expert evaluated each volunteer's cold/heat and healthy status. Intraclass correlation coefficient(ICC) was used to measure the interrater reliability and interrater agreement among the experts.
Results : Two volunteers are excluded due to the missing data, therefore eight persons' data (3 males and 5 females) were included in our analysis. The mean of age and BMI are 21.73(±2.32) and 29.63(±4.66), respectively. In health status, cold status and heat status, the ICC was 0.789, 0.904, 0.925, respectively.
Conclusions: We found that the assessment of cold/heat and healthy status was continued reliable among SCM experts. The assessment of cold/heat status was more consistent than the assessment of healthy status.
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KEYWORD
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Sasang Constitution, Cold-Heat, Health status, Intraclass correlation coefficient
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