Abstract
The Constitution in Chinese Medicine Questionnaire [CCMQ] organizes 9 body constitutions according to Traditional Chinese Medicine [TCM]. The translation was realized by a Medical Doctor [MD] specialized in TCM and the back translation by an english-speaking MD. Comprehensibility assessment was performed (N = 40, main scores ranged from 4.20 to 4.95). On the test-retest reliability Cronbach’s alpha was 0.920 in the first application and 0.943 in the second, the intraclass correlation scores ranged between good and excellent (0.6 - >0.80). The results show that the adaptation of the CCMQ is valid and ready to be used.
Highlights
The Chinese concept of body constitution is a model that comprehends many aspects of one individual’s health [1]
The Constitution in Chinese Medicine Questionnaire [CCMQ] organizes 9 body constitutions according to Traditional Chinese Medicine [TCM]
A total of 6 items presented discrepancies between the original and the backtranslated version, but only two of those were considered important by the authors (CBSR and HT) designated to compare and evaluate the back-translated version in relation to the original version. For one of these items, the authors suggested a specific adaptation regarding the expression “hot flashes”, because a direct translation into the corresponding wording did not describe the symptom in its usual wording for Brazilian Portuguese
Summary
The Chinese concept of body constitution is a model that comprehends many aspects of one individual’s health [1]. The theory of body constitutions was developed to better understand human health and physical and mental aspects related to disease development and course [2] [3]. To improve national health management, the Chinese government created a project to stablish a normative system of body constitutions according to TCM based in classificatory questionnaires [4]. The reproducibility, reliability and validation of the questionnaire in development were evaluated and published by the Chinese Association of Chinese Medicine in 2009 as the “Constitution in Chinese Medicine Questionnaire” [CCMQ] [5]. Its reliability and validation were evaluated with more than 20 thousand people in China in 9 distinct geographic districts [6] [7]
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