Author(s)

Ciro Blujus dos Santos Rohde^1,2*, Lukas Blumrich³, Pedro Oliveira Dias Martins³, Fernanda Babler⁴, Wu Tu Hsing⁵, Hermano Tavares²

¹Service of Phytotherapy, Medicinal Plants and Acupuncture of the Impulse Control Disorders and Behavioral Addictions Outpatient Unit, Institute and Department of Psychiatry, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
²Impulse Control Disorders and Behavioral Addictions Outpatient Unit, Institute and Department of Psychiatry, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
³School of Medicine, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
⁴Institute of Radiology, Hospital of Clinics, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
⁵Center of Acupuncture of the Institute of Orthopedics and Traumatology of the Hospital of Clinics, School of Medicine, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.

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.

Traditional Chinese Medicine, Body Constitution, Cross-Cultural, Questionnaire, Portuguese

dos Santos Rohde, C. , Blumrich, L. , Martins, P. , Babler, F. , Hsing, W. and Tavares, H. (2021) Translation, Adaptation and Validation of a Chinese Medicine Questionnaire to Brazilian Portuguese. Open Journal of Applied Sciences, 11, 1149-1156. doi: 10.4236/ojapps.2021.1110086.