Development of a Traditional Chinese Medicine Syndrome-Specific Scale for Ulcerative Colitis: The Large Intestine Dampness-Heat Syndrome Questionnaire

Table 5

Cronbach's α coefficient and ICC of each domain.

	No. of items	Cronbach’s α (95% CI)	ICC (95% CI)
Disease-related domain	4	0.69 (0.62–0.75)	0.86 (0.83–0.89)
Heat domain	5	0.61 (0.53–0.68)	0.83 (0.80–0.86)
Dampness domain	2	0.70 (0.61–0.76)	0.82 (0.78–0.86)
The LIDHSQ	11	0.68 (0.62–0.73)	0.88 (0.85–0.91)

ICC: intraclass correlation coefficient. : results based on 22 inpatients.