title: Physical and mental health conditions of young college students with different Traditional Chinese Medicine constitutions in Zhejiang Province of China.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) constitutions of youths in colleges, and their physical and mental health conditions of different TCM constitutions, so as to provide a theoretical basis for the TCM way to improve young people's physical and mental health.
  
  
  METHODS
  The Standard TCM Constitutions' Classification and Determination Questionnaire was used to measure the body health condition, and the Symptom Checklist 90 Questionnaire and the Questionnaire of the National Student Physical Health Standards were used to determine mental and physical health conditions respectively in 1421 young participants validly answering the questionnaires in Zhejiang Province.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The participants had a mean age of 19.96 years (SD = 0.95 years) with the majority of females (55.10%). One fourth of the 1421 participants were the Ping-he constitution and others were the tendency constitutions. Participants with Pinghe module (which has characteristics of moderate posture, rosy, energetic and is a healthy condition in TCM) were healthier than those with tendency constitutions in physical and mental health, with 65.81 ± 7.83 (men) and 77.99 ± 7.24 (women) scores in the physical test and around 1.25 scores in the mental health test. College students with combined biased constitutions were more likely suffer force, sensitive, depression and anxiety.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Most of college students have a tendency or biased constitution which could be more likely to suffer suboptimal health status and diseases. Youths in college themselves and health providers should pay more attention to their potential health issues and make proper healthcare plan according to their own TCM constitution.
authors.forename: Heli
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Lv
authors.forename: Li
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Zhiqiang
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Huijuan
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Jin
authors.forename: Lei
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Jin
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001824:Body Constitution; D005260:Female; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional / Q000523:psychology*; D008603:Mental Health; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult