초록
Objectives: The study aimed to test the validity and reliability of the questionnaire for cold-heat & defi-ciency-excess pattern identification of dementia and establish a new version of the questionnaire.

Methods: Mean, standard deviation, skewness, internal consistency, correlation and t-test of the 26 items derived from previous study was analyzed in 20 dementia patients.
The items with Cronbach-α coefficient below 0.7 were modified. Thus, we established a new version of the questionnaire consist-ing of 20 items.

Results: Cronbach-α of each cold, heat, deficiency and excess questionnaire was 0.662, −0.229, 0.722 and 0.778, respectively.
The correlation coefficient between cold, heat, deficiency and excess was less than 0.4 and correlation coefficient between dementia and cold,
deficiency was 0.518. On t-test, the t-value of cold, deficiency and dementia was −2.196.

Conclusions: The results indicated that cold-heat, deficiency-excess questionnaires showed sat-isfactory discriminant validity.
In addition, there was correlation between dementia and cold, deficiency.
Finally, we established a new version of the questionnaire for cold-heat, deficiency-excess pattern identification that consisted of 20 items.

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