To Establish the Traditional Chinese Medicine Based Intelligent Personal Health Care System

Development of a New Generation Chinese Medicine Constitution Assessment Scale

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Traditional Chinese Medicine Body Constitution
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: CCMQ questionnaire

Detailed Description

Development of a New Generation Chinese Medicine Constitution Assessment Scale:

A. Analyzing the existing CCMQ and BCQ questionnaire syntax. B. Redesigning the scale's question statements. C. Reintegrating the scale items and constitutional characteristics. D. Testing and evaluating the reliability and validity of the questionnaire, cross-assessing with diagnoses from experienced Chinese medicine practitioners.

E. Collecting feedback and reviewing modifications based on the responses from the general population questionnaire.

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Actual): 1918

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Taiwan
  • North District
    • Taichung, North District, Taiwan, 404
      • China Medical University Hospital

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

The enrolled normal subjects were confirmed by the Association and the research Principal Investigator (PI). Subjects between the ages of 18 and 85 were included. We collected all of the subjects' basic information and administered the Chinese Medicine Constitution Assessment Scale.

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Aged over 18 and under 85.
• Participants agreed to join the trial by fully understanding the purpose of the study and the entire trial process and then signed an informed consent.
• Able to fill out online questionnaire with any electronic device in person or under assistance

Exclusion Criteria:

• Age of subjects was under 18 or more than 85 years old.
• Participants who do not meet the above criteria
• Subjects were not willing sign the informed consent.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Number of groups / cohorts

1

Cohorts and Interventions

Group / Cohort	Intervention / Treatment
All subjects; Subjects who filled out our modified CCMQ questionnaire	Other: CCMQ questionnaire; Test subjects were required to fill out our modified CCMQ (Constitution in Chinese Medicine Questionnaire) Questionnaire.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Constitution in Chinese Medicine Questionnaire(CCMQ)_modified version	Based on the analysis, we have identified nine different types of Traditional Chinese Medicine constitutions.	On the 1 day of receipt

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Base Data Questionnaire	Included collection of basic data (age, BMI, gender, place of residence, education level, smoking status, alcohol drinking, betel nut chewing, exercise frequency, work shift jobs and bedtime), disease status.	On the 1 day of receipt

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Sheng-Teng Huang

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): August 1, 2020
• Primary Completion (Actual): July 31, 2022
• Study Completion (Actual): July 31, 2022

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: July 3, 2023
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 12, 2023
• First Posted (Actual): July 13, 2023

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): July 13, 2023
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 12, 2023
• Last Verified: July 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: CMUH109-REC1-026

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO
• IPD Plan Description: IPD are not planned to be shared

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No