PMID- 25672502
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20160412
LR  - 20220310
IS  - 1993-0402 (Electronic)
IS  - 1672-0415 (Linking)
VI  - 21
IP  - 7
DP  - 2015 Jul
TI  - Development and validation of a Lao Juan questionnaire.
PG  - 500-6
LID - 10.1007/s11655-015-2079-4 [doi]
AB  - OBJECTIVES: Lao Juan (LJ, ) is a syndrome described in Chinese medicine (CM) that 
      manifests with fatigue, fever, spontaneous sweating, indigestion, work-induced 
      pain, weakness of the limbs, and shortness of breath. The present study was 
      conducted to examine the reliability and validity of a Lao Juan Questionnaire 
      (LJQ). METHODS: A total of 151 outpatients and 73 normal subjects were asked to 
      complete the LJQ. Seventy-three normal subjects were additionally asked to 
      complete the Chalder Fatigue Scale (CFS). Twelve clinicians determined whether 
      the 151 outpatients exhibited LJ or not. The internal consistency and construct 
      validity for the LJQ were estimated using data from the outpatient subjects. The 
      CFS data were used to examine the concurrent validity of the LJQ. Total LJQ 
      scores and the clinicians᾿diagnoses of the outpatients were used to perform 
      receiver operating characteristics (ROC) curve analyses and to define an optimum 
      cut-off score for the LJQ. RESULTS: The 19-item LJQ had satisfactory internal 
      consistency (alpha=0.828) and concurrent validity, with significant correlations 
      between the LJQ and the CFS subscales. In the test of construct validity using 
      principal component analysis, a total of six factors were extracted, and the 
      overall variance explained by all factors was 59.5%. In ROC curve analyses, the 
      sensitivity, specificity, and area under the curve were 76.0%, 59.2%, and 0.709, 
      respectively. The optimum cut-off score was defined as six points. CONCLUSIONS: 
      Our results suggest that the LJQ is a reliable and valid instrument for 
      evaluating LJ.
FAU - Yoon, Kyu-Jin
AU  - Yoon KJ
AD  - Department of Diagnosis and Biofunctional Medicine, College of Korean Medicine, 
      Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea.
FAU - Park, Young-Bae
AU  - Park YB
FAU - Park, Young-Jae
AU  - Park YJ
FAU - Kim, Min-Yong
AU  - Kim MY
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20150212
PL  - China
TA  - Chin J Integr Med
JT  - Chinese journal of integrative medicine
JID - 101181180
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - Fatigue/diagnosis
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Pilot Projects
MH  - ROC Curve
MH  - Reproducibility of Results
MH  - Sensitivity and Specificity
MH  - *Surveys and Questionnaires
MH  - Young Adult
EDAT- 2015/02/13 06:00
MHDA- 2016/04/14 06:00
CRDT- 2015/02/13 06:00
PHST- 2011/07/21 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2015/02/13 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2015/02/13 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2016/04/14 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.1007/s11655-015-2079-4 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Chin J Integr Med. 2015 Jul;21(7):500-6. doi: 10.1007/s11655-015-2079-4. Epub 
      2015 Feb 12.