<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family: " times="" new="" roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";mso-bidi-font-family:="" mangal;mso-ansi-language:en-gb;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:="" hi"="" lang="EN-GB">Developing and standardization of a structured questionnaire to determine the temperament (<i>Mizaj</i>) of individuals</span>

Abstract

Temperament (<i>Mizaj</i>) plays an important role in the maintenance of health and prevention of disease and forms the basis of pathology, diagnosis and treatment in Iranian traditional medicine. In Iranian traditional medicine different characteristics have been ascribed to different types of <i>Mizaj</i>. Yet no standard instrument for identifying <i>Mizaj </i>of individuals has been developed. Therefore, this study was conducted in order to develop and standardize a structured questionnaire to determine the <i>Mizaj</i> of individuals. Two types of structured questionnaires were developed first for determining the innate <i>Mizaj</i> that is acquired by birth and the second for the acquired. The first questionnaire was made of 26 items and the second of 56 items. Participants included 197 individuals referring to Sib Diet Clinic. The validity and reliability assessment tests showed that content validity index was equal to one, Cronbach's alpha was equal to 0.912 for innate <i>Mizaj</i> assessment questionnaire and 0.825for acquired <i>Mizaj </i>assessment questionnaire. Inter Cluster Correlation was above 0.9 for all the four types of <i>Mizaj</i>. The findings of this study show that the developed questionnaires had a good level of reliability and validity in determining <i>Mizaj</i> of individuals.