Validation of the Constitution in Chinese Medicine Questionnaire: Does the Traditional Chinese Medicine Concept of Body Constitution Exist?

Table 2

The CVIs of CCMQ rated by Chinese medicine practitioners (CMPs) and lay persons.

	CMP (𝑛=10) (%)	Lay persons (𝑛=10) (%)
Scale (Items) rated to be clear
Response options “often” (Chang Chang)	50	100
Gentleness (total 8 items)	70–100	50–100
“53. Are you capable to adapt to the external changes of the natural and social environment?”	70	50
Qi-deficiency (total 8 items)	60–100	60–100
“3. Will you easily feeling shortness of breath (gasping for breath)?”	60	100
“4. Will you easily feeling palpitation?”	90	60
Yang-deficiency (total 7 items)	80–100	100
Ying-deficiency (total 8 items)	80–100	90–100
Phlegm-wetness (total 8 items)	80–100	70–100
Wetness-heat (total 6 items)	90–100	60–100
“60. Have you feeling wetness in your scrotum (for men only)?”	100	60
Blood stasis (total 7 items)	80–100	90–100
Qi-depression (total 7 items)	60–100	90–100
“10. Do you think you are sentimental or fragile emotionally?”	60	100
Special diathesis (total items: 7)	80–100	80–100
Scales rated to be consistent with response options
Gentleness (total 8 items)	80–100	80–90
Qi-deficiency (total 8 items)	80–100	80–90
Yang-deficiency (total 7 items)	90–100	90
Ying-deficiency (total 8 items)	90–100	90
Phlegm-wetness (total 8 items)	90–100	80–90
Wetness-heat (total 6 items)	100	80–100
Blood stasis (total 7 items)	90–100	70–90
Qi-depression (total 7 items)	90–100	90
Special diathesis (total 7 items)	80–100	80–90
Scales rated to be relevant to health
Gentleness (total 8 items)	70–100	40–100
“53. Are you capable to adapt to the external changes of the natural and social environment?”	70	40
Qi-deficiency (total 8 items)	80–100	50–100
“6. Do you like quiet and bothered to talk?”	80	50
Yang-deficiency (total 7 items)	80–100	90–100
Ying-deficiency (total 8 items)	70–100	70–100
Phlegm-wetness (total 8 items)	80–100	70–100
Wetness-heat (total 6 items)	80–100	70–100
Blood stasis (total 7 items)	80–100	70–100
Qi-depression (total 7 items)	80–100	50–100
“14. Will you sign without any intention?”	80	50
Special diathesis (total 7 items)	80–100	70–100