Research Article
Validation of the Constitution in Chinese Medicine Questionnaire: Does the Traditional Chinese Medicine Concept of Body Constitution Exist?
Table 10
Reliability of diagnosis after 2-week followup of CCMQ.
| | At baseline | After 2-week followup | Kappa statistics | | No | Yes |
| | CCMQ diagnosis | | | | |
| (1) Gentleness
| No | 96 (60.0%) | 64 (40.0%) | 0.318 | | Yes | 11 (19.0%) | 47 (81.0%) | (2) Qi-deficiency
| No | 112 (96.6%) | 4 (3.4%) | 0.531 | | Yes | 47 (44.3%) | 59 (55.7%) | (3) Yang-deficiency
| No | 142 (95.9%) | 6 (4.1%) | 0.488 | | Yes | 37 (52.9%) | 33 (47.1%) | (4) Yin-deficiency
| No | 141 (95.3%) | 7 (4.7%) | 0.346 | | Yes | 46 (65.7%) | 24 (34.3%) | (5) Phlegm-wetness
| No | 133 (94.3%) | 8 (5.7%) | 0.397 | | Yes | 46 (59.0%) | 32 (41.0%) | (6) Wetness-heat
| No | 139 (93.3%) | 10 (6.7%) | 0.340 | | Yes | 44 (63.8%) | 25 (36.2%) | | (7) Blood-stasis | No | 135 (92.5%) | 11 (7.5%) | 0.411 | | Yes | 40 (55.6%) | 32 (44.4%) | (8) Qi-depression
| No | 133 (95.0%) | 7 (5.0%) | 0.373 | | Yes | 49 (62.0%) | 30 (38.0%) | (9) Special diathesis
| No | 142 (94.0%) | 9 (6.0%) | 0.372 | | Yes | 42 (61.8%) | 26 (38.2%) |
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