TITLE:
Translation, Adaptation and Validation of a Chinese Medicine Questionnaire to Brazilian Portuguese
AUTHORS:
Ciro Blujus dos Santos Rohde, Lukas Blumrich, Pedro Oliveira Dias Martins, Fernanda Babler, Wu Tu Hsing, Hermano Tavares
KEYWORDS:
Traditional Chinese Medicine, Body Constitution, Cross-Cultural, Questionnaire, Portuguese
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Applied Sciences,
Vol.11 No.10,
October
29,
2021
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.