Developing and Testing the Effectiveness of a Novel Health Qigong for Frail Elders in Hong Kong: A Preliminary Study

Table 2

Content validation ratios (CVRs) for potential therapeutic value of the Yan Chai Yi Jing Ten Section Brocades among six experts.

On therapeutic values: the Yan Chai Yi Jing Ten-Section Brocades protocol	CVR
	Standing	Sitting
Psychosocial
Facilitates relaxation	1.00*	1.00*
Relieves unpleasant feeling	1.00*	1.00*
Develops confidence to deal with disabilities and medical conditions	0.50	0.67
Culturally relevant activity and arouses interest	1.00*	1.00*
Promotes social contact	0.83*	0.83*
Physical and physiological aspects
Enforces “deep and slow” breathing	1.00*	1.00*
Enforces coordination between respiration and movements	1.00*	1.00*
Enforces trunk, neck and upper limbs stretch	0.83*	0.83*
Promotes functional mobility and balance	1.00*	0.67
Movements can be easily picked up by elders	0.50	0.50
Easy to learn as routine exercise	0.83*	0.83*
General health
From TCM perspective, it promotes good health through practice of reciprocal movements	1.00*	1.00*
From TCM perspective, it stimulates acupressure points and enforces the flow of “Qi”	0.67	0.67
Promotes physical and psychological health	1.00*	1.00*
Safety
Can be adapted to activity tolerance of each individual	0.83*	0.83*
Can be practiced in old age home	0.83*	0.83*
Adequate precautions to prevent potential harm	1.00*	1.00*

∗Indicating statements with consensus agreement among the experts, that is, CVR within 0.75–1.00.