Reliability and validity assessment of gastrointestinal dystemperaments questionnaire: a novel scale in Persian traditional medicine
Background: Development of a questionnaire based on the resources of Persian traditional medicine seems necessary. One of the problems faced by practitioners of traditional medicine is the different opinions regarding the diagnosis of general temperament or temperament of member. One of the reason...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Electronic Physician
2018-02-01
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| Series: | Electronic Physician |
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| Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5878031/ |
| Summary: | Background: Development of a questionnaire based on the resources of Persian traditional medicine seems
necessary. One of the problems faced by practitioners of traditional medicine is the different opinions regarding
the diagnosis of general temperament or temperament of member. One of the reasons is the lack of validity tools,
and it has led to difficulties in training the student of traditional medicine and the treatment of patients. The
differences in the detection methods, have given rise to several treatment methods.
Objective: The present study aimed to develop a questionnaire and standard software for diagnosis of
gastrointestinal dystemperaments.
Methods: The present research is a tool developing study which included 8 stages of developing the items,
determining the statements based on items, assessing the face validity, assessing the content validity, assessing
the reliability, rating the items, developing a software for calculation of the total score of the questionnaire named
GDS v.1.1, and evaluating the concurrent validity using statistical tests including Cronbach's alpha coefficient,
Cohen's kappa coefficient.
Results: Based on the results, 112 notes including 62 symptoms were extracted from resources, and 58 items
were obtained from in-person interview sessions with a panel of experts. A statement was selected for each item
and, after merging a number of statements, a total of 49 statements were finally obtained. By calculating the score
of statement impact and determining the content validity, respectively, 6 and 10 other items were removed from
the list of statements. Standardized Cronbach's alpha for this questionnaire was obtained 0.795 and its concurrent
validity was equal to 0.8.
Conclusion: A quantitative tool was developed for diagnosis and examination of gastrointestinal
dystemperaments. The developed questionnaire is adequately reliable and valid for this purpose. In addition, the
software can be used for clinical diagnosis |
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| ISSN: | 2008-5842 2008-5842 |