[Construction and analysis of questionnaires on AIDS cough in traditional Chinese medicine diagnosis and treatment procedures].
OBJECTIVE
To norm the behavior of AIDS cough in traditional Chinese medicine diagnosis and treatment and improve the clinical level of cough treatment for HIV/AIDS, and build AIDS cough diagnosis and treatment procedures in traditional Chinese medicine.


METHODS
Combined with clinical practice,to formulate questionnaire on AIDS cough in traditional Chinese medicine diagnosis and treatment by both English and Chinese literature research to expertise consultation and verify the results of the questionnaires on the statistics using the Delphi method.


RESULTS
Questionnaire contents consist of overview, pathogeny, diagnosis standard, dialectical medication (phlegm heat resistance pulmonary lung and kidney Yin deficiency lung spleen-deficiency), treating spleen-deficiency (lung), moxibustion treatment and aftercare care and diet and mental, average (2.93-3.00), full mark rate (93.10%-100%) ranks average (9.91-10.67) and (287.50-309.50) of which are the most high value, and the variation coefficient is 0.00, the Kendall coefficient (Kendalls W) is 0.049 which is statistical significance, the questionnaire reliability value of alpha was 0.788.


CONCLUSIONS
Preliminary standarded concept, etiology and pathogenesis, diagnosis and syndrome differentiation treatment of AIDS cough, basically recognised by the experts in this field, and laid the foundation of traditional Chinese medicine diagnosis and treatment on develop the AIDS cough specifications.
Traditional Chinese Medicine R&D Center, Guang'anmen Hospital of China Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing 100053, China.
Ying
Y
Zhang
Liu-Hua
LH
Xue
Yu-Xia
YX
Chen
Shi-Jing
SJ
Huang
Ju-Hua
JH
Pan
Jie
J
Wang
D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000150:complications*; D003371:Cough / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D012015:Reference Standards; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires