Development of a core outcome set for clinical research of dampness syndrome of Chinese medicine

Chinese medicine (CM) has been practiced for thousands of years and has evolved its own theory. The syndrome (zheng in Chinese) is an important notion in CM, indicating a particular pathological mechanism at a certain stage of diseases. Dampness syndrome is one of the common basic syndromes of CM. However, there is no standard efficacy evaluation standard for dampness, which has an impact on the standardization and consistency of syndrome therapeutic effect evaluation. Developing a core outcome set (COS) is an important way to solve the problems of inconsistency and unrecognized arbitrariness on outcome measures in the effectiveness evaluation of clinical trials of CM. Hence, a COS for clinical research on dampness syndrome will be constructed to improve the standardization and consistency of the outcome indicator report of related clinical research.

Contributors

Wen Zehuai (The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine) (the supervisor)
Li Geng (The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine)
Cao Wencong (The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine)
Ouyang Wenwei (The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine)
Xuan Meiling (The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine)
Zhou Li (The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine)
Guo Xiaohui (The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine)
Xue Yusheng (The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine)

Further Study Information

Current Stage: Ongoing
Date: September 2021 - September 2022
Funding source(s): 2021 State Key Laboratory of Dampness Syndrome of Chinese Medicine Fund Project

Health Area

Disease Category: Endocrine & metabolic

Disease Name: Dampness syndrome

Target Population

Age Range: 18 - 80

Sex: Either

Nature of Intervention: Any

Stakeholders Involved

- Clinical experts
- Epidemiologists
- Ethicists
- Methodologists
- Patient/ support group representatives
- Pharmaceutical industry representatives
- Researchers
- Statisticians

Study Type

- COS for clinical trials or clinical research
- COS for practice

Method(s)

- Consensus conference
- Consensus meeting
- Delphi process
- Interview
- Other

Using Literature research, Delphi survey, Semi-structured interviews and Retrospective study to complete this project.

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