A Study on the Reliability of Sasang Constitutional Body Trunk Measurement

Table 3

Pre- and Post-training intraobserver TEM, %TEM, and AB of the measurement.

Location	Observer 1			Observer 2			Observer 3			Observer 4			Observer 5			Instructor
	TEM	%TEM	AB	TEM	%TEM	AB	TEM	%TEM	AB	TEM	%TEM	AB	TEM	%TEM	AB	TEM	%TEM
IW
Pre	0.81	2.54	2.67	0.69	1.97	−0.55	1.32	3.87	0.4	0.96	2.82	0.72	1.61	4.98	2.17	0.25	0.72
Post	0.63	1.85	0.36	0.27	0.79	0.07	0.39	1.15	0.22	0.51	1.49	0.23	0.3	0.88	0.42	0.36	1.05
CW
Pre	0.63	2.11	2.47	2.03	6.26	0.02	0.82	2.51	−0.13	0.59	1.91	1.62	0.83	2.74	1.99	0.39	1.2
Post	0.48	1.52	0.6	0.46	1.42	−0.37	0.33	1.05	0.46	0.5	1.6	0.71	0.43	1.36	0.68	0.26	0.81
RW
Pre	0.61	2.18	1.99	0.98	3.39	1.2	1.02	3.48	0.77	0.42	1.42	0.92	0.67	2.32	1.25	0.34	1.12
Post	0.23	0.77	0.36	0.36	1.22	0.1	0.24	0.8	−0.12	0.41	1.38	0.23	0.43	1.47	0.44	0.24	0.8
WW
Pre	0.74	2.78	2.81	0.47	1.64	0.59	0.55	1.9	0.43	0.54	1.92	1.22	0.59	2.11	1.38	0.17	0.57
Post	0.41	1.42	0.35	0.26	0.87	0.03	0.29	0.98	−0.05	0.22	0.77	0.32	0.5	1.72	0.53	0.21	0.72
PW
Pre	1.02	3.62	−1.03	0.91	2.85	−4.67	1.41	5.71	2.5	0.66	2.37	−0.78	0.59	1.99	−2.31	0.22	0.81
Post	0.32	1.2	0.32	0.38	1.37	−0.41	0.24	0.9	−0.08	0.34	1.26	−0.1	0.16	0.58	0.4	0.2	0.74
FC
Pre	0.16	0.27	−1.54	0.57	0.97	−1.39	0.52	0.9	−0.7	0.79	1.35	−1.12	0.49	0.82	−1.85	0.23	0.4
Post	0.25	0.44	−0.08	0.17	0.3	−0.63	0.31	0.54	−0.7	0.17	0.29	−0.54	0.15	0.27	−0.44	0.24	0.42
NC
Pre	0.39	1.04	0.18	1.03	2.69	−0.66	0.81	2.1	−0.95	0.89	2.38	0.21	0.6	1.54	−1.28	0.3	0.8
Post	0.35	0.93	0.02	0.28	0.74	0.1	0.37	0.98	−0.55	0.3	0.79	0.17	0.32	0.86	−0.28	0.28	0.76
AC
Pre	1.34	1.42	2.99	2.02	2.1	1.67	1.47	1.49	−0.86	1.67	1.73	1.18	1.06	1.09	−0.22	0.48	0.49
Post	0.65	0.66	−0.65	0.45	0.46	1.03	1.02	1.03	−0.8	0.5	0.51	0.43	0.57	0.58	0.35	0.57	0.58
CC
Pre	1.04	1.16	3.6	1.31	1.44	2.55	1.19	1.28	0.98	2.01	2.2	2.2	1.17	1.28	1.68	0.55	0.59
Post	0.5	0.54	0.82	0.63	0.67	0.7	0.51	0.55	−0.01	0.38	0.41	0.58	0.47	0.5	0.95	0.46	0.49
RC
Pre	3.04	3.81	2.31	2.37	2.96	1.98	1.03	1.28	1.81	1.5	1.86	1.21	1.12	1.36	0.35	0.45	0.55
Post	0.83	1.01	0.27	0.57	0.7	0.6	0.45	0.54	−0.52	1.11	1.35	−0.42	0.75	0.91	0.44	0.48	0.59
WC
Pre	1.3	1.62	1.91	0.94	1.14	0.03	1.29	1.56	−0.28	0.74	0.91	0.58	1.17	1.42	−0.26	0.35	0.42
Post	0.68	0.83	0.15	0.47	0.57	0.23	0.65	0.78	−0.84	0.48	0.59	0	0.53	0.64	−0.19	0.56	0.68
PC
Pre	0.94	1.12	2.58	0.73	0.87	1.55	1.04	1.24	1.46	1.74	2	−0.99	1.15	1.35	0.86	0.74	0.86
Post	0.41	0.48	1.23	0.61	0.71	0.79	0.95	1.1	0.15	0.82	0.94	−0.1	0.76	0.87	−0.8	0.83	0.96
HC
Pre	1.5	1.68	2.63	1.65	1.8	−0.12	1.2	1.27	−2.37	3.19	3.43	−1.16	2.06	2.24	−0.11	0.53	0.58
Post	0.53	0.57	0.05	0.35	0.38	0.05	0.93	0.99	−1.4	0.44	0.47	−0.32	0.33	0.35	−0.58	0.49	0.53
WHR
Pre	0.02	2.12	−0.01	0.02	2.4	0.001	0.02	2.18	0.02	0.03	3.1	0.02	0.02	2.39	−0.002	0.01	0.76
Post	0.01	1.05	0.001	0.006	0.7	0.002	0.007	0.77	0.004	0.006	0.7	0.003	0.007	0.81	0.004	0.009	1.05

TEM: technical error of measurement, AB: mean difference between measurement of observer and that of the instructor.