Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Research Article

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

Table 5

Spearman item-scale correlations and scaling success rate of the CCMQ.


	Baseline
CCMQ diagnosis	Item-scale correlation	Scaling success rate^†

(1) Gentleness	0.377–0.686	100%
(2) Qi-deficiency	0.433–0.717	87.5%
(3) Yang-deficiency	0.517–0.811	85.7%
(4) Yin-deficiency	0.475–0.701	100%
(5) Phlegm-wetness	0.531–0.679	87.5%
(6) Wetness-heat	0.563–0.666	100%
(7) Blood-stasis	0.460–0.681	85.7%
(8) Qi-depression	0.488–0.820	85.7%
(9) Special diathesis	0.488–0.712	100%

All item-scale Spearman correlations were significant () for two items.
^†Scaling success means the item and hypothesized-scale correlation was higher than all items and competing-scale correlations. This rate was the proportion of total number of comparisons for all the items in each scale that was successful.