%0 Journal Article
%T Reliability and validity of the Korean standard pattern identification for stroke (K-SPI-Stroke) questionnaire
%A Byoung-Kab Kang
%A Tae Yong Park
%A Tae Woong Moon
%A Ju Ah Lee
%A Mi Mi Ko
%A Jiae Choi
%A Myeong Soo Lee
%J BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine
%D 2012
%I BioMed Central
%R 10.1186/1472-6882-12-55
%X Between September 2006 and December 2010, 2,905 patients from 11 Korean medical hospitals were asked to complete the K-SPI-Stroke questionnaire as a part of project ' Fundamental study for the standardization and objectification of pattern identification in traditional Korean medicine for stroke (SOPI-Stroke). Each patient was independently diagnosed by two TKM physicians from the same site according to one of four patterns, as suggested by the Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine: 1) a Qi deficiency pattern, 2) a Dampness-phlegm pattern, 3) a Yin deficiency pattern, or 4) a Fire-heat pattern. We estimated the internal consistency using Cronbach¡¯s ¦Á coefficient, the discriminant validity using the means score of patterns, and the predictive validity using the classification accuracy of the K-SPI-Stroke questionnaire.The K-SPI-Stroke questionnaire had satisfactory internal consistency (¦Á£¿=£¿0.700) and validity, with significant differences in the mean of scores among the four patterns. The overall classification accuracy of this questionnaire was 65.2 %.These results suggest that the K-SPI-Stroke questionnaire is a reliable and valid instrument for estimating the severity of the four patterns.
%K Reliability
%K Validity
%K Pattern identification
%K Stroke
%U http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6882/12/55/abstract