Rastogi Sanjeev
Associate Professor, Department of Pancha Karma, State Ayurvedic College, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Ayu. 2012 Apr;33(2):209-18. doi: 10.4103/0974-8520.105240.
Prakriti, for its tangible impacts upon decision making in Ayurvedic clinical practice, requires a thorough and fool-proof method of examination. Conventional methods adopted for Prakriti examination are found inconsistent with huge inter- and intra-rater inference variability. By observing the gaps in the field, the present study aims to develop a prototype Prakriti analysis tool and its evaluation on inter-rater validity grounds. The study observes that Vata and Pitta constructs of Prakriti identification in Ayurveda have a significant inter-rater correlation (P 0.001 and P 0.01), whereas Kapha has less (P ` 0.02) correlation. It is inferred that for less correlated variables like those of Kapha, a better understanding is required to reach a better consensus.
由于体质在阿育吠陀临床实践中对决策有切实影响，因此需要一种全面且万无一失的检查方法。人们发现，用于体质检查的传统方法存在不一致性，评分者之间和评分者内部的推断差异巨大。通过观察该领域存在的差距，本研究旨在开发一种体质分析工具原型，并基于评分者间效度对其进行评估。该研究观察到，阿育吠陀中体质识别的风（Vata）和火（Pitta）结构具有显著的评分者间相关性（P < 0.001和P < 0.01），而水（Kapha）的相关性较小（P < 0.02）。据推断，对于像水这样相关性较小的变量，需要更好地理解才能达成更好的共识。
