TY - JOUR A2 - Hawk, Cheryl AU - Zhou, Xuan AU - Xu, Fang AU - Gao, Jian AU - Cao, Shan AU - Zhao, Ziwei AU - Heng, Mingli AU - Bu, Huaien AU - Yin, Liqun AU - Wang, Hongwu PY - 2015 DA - 2015/10/11 TI - Development and Preliminary Validation of the Questionnaire (the First Edition) Based on TCM for Detecting Health Status in China SP - 863685 VL - 2015 AB - Background. More and more people come to realize the importance of healthcare and early detecting of health status before becoming much more serious. Self-perceived health is an easy, economic, and effective indicator of health, which has been widely applied in measuring health. In this paper, the development and preliminary validation of the questionnaire (the First Edition) based on TCM theory were described and combined with Manual Mental Health Pattern for detecting health status in community of Tianjin, China. Methods. Questionnaire validity and reliability were evaluated in a small sample as a pilot study. Analyses included tests for reliability and internal consistency, exploratory factor analysis, and tests for discriminative ability and convergent validity. Results. Overall, 294 of 303 participants completed the questionnaire (97.3%). The questionnaire included 49 items. Cronbach’s α was 0.83. Factor analysis established 10 distinct domains. The Pearson’s rho correlation between the total scores and MHP (SCL) was statistically significant (r=0.43, P<0.001). t-test revealed significant differences (P<0.05) in total scores between the healthy and unhealthy results distinguished by physical examination. Conclusions. Questionnaire reliability and validity were acceptable. Further work and larger sample would be warranted to refine items that measure the health status, to improve the reliability and discriminated validity of the questionnaire. SN - 1741-427X UR - https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/863685 DO - 10.1155/2015/863685 JF - Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine PB - Hindawi Publishing Corporation KW - ER -