Development of a Traditional Chinese Medicine Syndrome-Specific Scale for Ulcerative Colitis: The Large Intestine Dampness-Heat Syndrome Questionnaire

Table 4

The scores and correlation coefficients for each item (n = 249).

	Score of 0	Score of 1	Mean	Standard deviation	Kappa	Disease-related domain	Heat domain	Dampness domain
Diarrhoea	18	231	0.928	0.259	0.878	0.684	0.253	0.169
Abdominal pain	16	233	0.936	0.246	0.934	0.697	0.134	0.094
Mucus stool	28	221	0.888	0.317	0.926	0.751	0.153	0.090
Bloody purulent stool	29	220	0.884	0.321	0.904	0.749	0.117	0.121
Anal burning	73	176	0.707	0.456	0.940	0.185	0.650	0.030
Red tongue	25	224	0.900	0.301	0.923	0.224	0.561	0.118
Yellow fur	28	221	0.888	0.317	0.904	0.227	0.624	0.181
Fever	149	100	0.402	0.491	0.945	0.075	0.620	0.364
Dry mouth	61	188	0.755	0.431	0.928	0.053	0.704	0.053
Greasy fur	76	173	0.695	0.461	0.916	0.171	0.182	0.865
Defecation disorder	129	120	0.482	0.501	0.923	0.115	0.240	0.887

: Kappa was calculated using the scores assigned by the two experts.: correlation coefficient between the item and domain scores.