Valid and Convenient Questionnaire Assessment of Chinese Body Constitution: Item Characteristics, Reliability, and Construct Validation.
Taoying LuJingwen YanJianfang ChangJianxiong CaiLingjia YinJiamin YuanLi HuangYingshuai LiMinghua BaiKit-Tai HauDarong WuZhimin YangPublished in: Patient preference and adherence (2022)
The CCMQ measured the 9 constitutions efficiently and with reasonably good reliability and construct validity. Given the various challenges to assessing TCM body constitutions even by experienced clinicians, the CCMQ provides an appealing alternative to measure the Chinese body constitutions of healthy participants in large-scale research or community health promotion programs. The present study also demonstrated how advanced methodologies in social sciences can help validate and refine the CCMQ and similar complementary medicine measures.