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From: Construction of a traditional Chinese medicine syndrome-specific outcome measure: the Kidney Deficiency Syndrome questionnaire (KDSQ)

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The measurement model of KDS-Yang. The EFA defined five domains but the SEM merged the fifth domain “abnormal water metabolism” to “abnormal urine excretion” for they were found to be highly correlated (>0.90), and this merge was justifiable by the theory. “Urine dripping” and “dizzy spells” were identified by the EFA to measure “Kidney-Qi deficiency” and “deficiency cold”, respectively, were trimmed off by the SEM; whereas these symptoms added to measure “abnormal urine excretion” and “Kidney-Qi deficiency”, respectively, were validated by the SEM. Of the KDSQ 24 items, 17 measure KDS-Yang, 9 are common items to KDS-Yin and KDS-Yang.

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