Study on the Performance Evaluation of the English Version of Tcm Constitution Scale

JING Hui-Ru; WANG Ji; WANG Qi

Abstract：Objective:Evaluate the Reliability and Validity of " English version Body Constitution in Traditional Chinese Medicine Questionnaire".Method:Cross-sectional survey was conducted on 404 American and Canadian Caucasians.To evaluate the reliability and validity of the questionnaire by testing the completion rate,the retest reliability,the internal consistency reliability,the criterion-related validity,and the construct validity according to the results of the questionnaire survey which made by the respondents.Results:The completion rate of "English version Body Constitution in Traditional Chinese Medicine Questionnaire" is 99％,while the average completion times are 17.46 ± 11.27 minutes and the represent correlation coefficient of retest reliability is 0.875.The overall Cronbach'sα coefficient of the internal consistency reliability is 0.864 while each subscale's Cronbach's α coefficient is between 0.81 ～ 0.50.The absolute value of Pearson correlation coefficient on the criterion-related validity is between 0.58 ～ 0.23.The KMO of the construct validity is 0.772,while Bartlett test of sphericity statistics x2 is 10510.61,extract 19 common factors,the overall contribution rate is 68.35％.Conclusion:The completion rate,retest reliability,internal consistency reliability,criterionrelated validity,and the construct validity of the reliability and validity on "English version Body Constitution in Traditional Chinese Medicine Questionnaire" are all good.This English version of the questionnaire would be a beginning and an effective research tool to carry out a large-scale research on foreigners;as such it can be used as a physical fitness assessment tool on foreigners.