Research Article

Confirmatory and Exploratory Factor Analysis for Validating the Phlegm Pattern Questionnaire for Healthy Subjects

Table 6


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(1) I feel unclear in the head.
(2) I have a headache.
(3) I feel dizzy.
(4) I have ringing in the ears.
(5) I feel my heart palpitate.
(6) I am startled by faint noise.
(7) I feel heavy in the chest.
(8) I have a cough.
(9) I have sputum in my throat.
(10) I feel a foreign body present in the throat, neither swallowed nor ejected.
(11) I feel short of breath.
(12) I feel fatigued.
(13) I feel heavy or weak in the limbs.
(14) I have a poor appetite.
(15) I feel sick to the stomach.
(16) I have indigestion.
(17) I have a feeling of fullness in the stomach with just a little food.
(18) My stomach or intestine rumbles.
(19) My stool is mucousy.
(20) I have a lump somewhere on my body.
(21) My face is yellowish.
(22) I have dark circles under the eyes.
(23) I feel itchy.
(24) I have pain in the joints.
(25) I have flank pain.

1: disagree very strongly, 2: disagree strongly, 3: disagree, 4: neither agree nor disagree, 5: agree, 6: agree strongly, and 7: agree very strongly.