Objectives
In Sasang constitutional medicine(SCM), it is an important factor to assess the degree of cold/heat and healthy status. We purposed to check the agreement among the experts on the assessment of cold/heat and healthy status.
Methods
Six SCM experts and 10 healthy volunteers were recruited for this study. The SCM expert had an interviewed with each volunteer in the similar condition like that of the actual clinic.
And then the expert evaluated each volunteer's cold/heat and healthy status. Intraclass correlation coefficient(ICC) was used to measure the interrater reliability and interrater agreement among the experts.
Results
Two volunteers are excluded due to the missing data, therefore eight persons' data (3 males and 5 females) were included in our analysis. The mean of age and BMI are 21.73(±2.32) and 29.63(±4.66), respectively. In health status, cold status and heat status, the ICC was 0.789,
0.904, 0.925, respectively.
Conclusions
We found that the assessment of cold/heat and healthy status was continued reliable among SCM experts. The assessment of cold/heat status was more consistent than the assessment of healthy status. |
