Development of a valid and reliable blood stasis questionnaire and its relationship to heart rate variability

• DOI: 10.1016/j.ctim.2013.08.019
• Publication Date: 2013-09-01T14:00:19Z
• Authors: Young-Jae Park; Dong-Hoon Yang; Jin-Moo Lee; Young-Bae Park
• Keywords: Adult; Aged, 80 and over; Male; Medicine, East Asian Traditional; Middle Aged; Arthralgia; Health Surveys; Abdominal Pain; 3. Good health; Young Adult; 03 medical and health sciences; 0302 clinical medicine; Heart Rate; Surveys and Questionnaires; Humans; Female; Aged

The present study was conducted to develop a valid and reliable Blood stasis questionnaire (BSQ), define its optimum cut-off score, examine whether the BSQ score affected cardiovascular autonomic function.Three hundred thirty-eight outpatients (group A) 61 inpatients B) were asked complete BSQ. In addition BSQ, heart rate variability parameters recorded for group A. We estimated internal consistency construct validity data from Three clinicians determined exhibited blood (BS), we defined point using clinicians' diagnoses scores B. Finally, differences in HRV between BS non-BS groups examined.The 12-item satisfactory (α=0.813). test of validity, total three factors (pain-lump, dark blue signs, trauma) extracted (total percentage variance=54.8%). ROC curve analyses showed that had high discriminative ability (AUC=0.948, 95% confidence interval 0.895-1.001). as points. SDNN, TP, LF, HF lower than group, indicating pattern partially caused decrease sympathetic parasympathetic activities.Our results suggest is instrument evaluating may cause function.