___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ *RAND Quality of Life Survey 36-Item Short Form (SF-36) * (SF-36) (Spanish Version) ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Script Author: Katja Borchert, Ph.D. (katjab@millisecond.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC Date: 10-10-2-13 last updated: 11-22-2023 by K. Borchert (katjab@millisecond.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC Script Copyright © 11-22-2023 Millisecond Software The Spanish translations were generously shared by Marta Becerra Losada ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ BACKGROUND INFO ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ This script implements the RAND 36 - Item Health Survey 1.0 version of the Medical Outcomes Study (MOS) Short Form Health Survey (SF-36). It was developed at RAND as part of MOS. It differs from the commercially available MOS SF-36 in the scoring algorithm. The following articles/webpages were used to develop this script: Ware, J., Jr., & Sherbourne, C.D. (1992). The MOS 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36): I. Conceptual Framework and Item Selection. Medical Care, 30, 473-483. Ware, J.E. Jr. & Gandek, B, (1998). Overview of the SF-36 Health Survey and the International Quality of Life Assessment (IQOLA) Project. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 51, 903-912. More information (including scoring guidelines) about the RAND 36 - Item Health Survey 1.0 on: http://www.rand.org/health/surveys_tools/mos/mos_core_36item.html All RAND surveys are in the public domain. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ OVERVIEW ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The RAND36-Item Health Survey contains 36 questions that assess the following 8 scales (+ 1 extra): Factor 1: Physical Health (PCS) (summary measure) Physical Functioning (PF): questions 3-12 (10 items) Role-Physical (RP): questions 13-16 (4 items) Bodily Pain (BP): question 21-22 (2 items) General Health (GH): questions 1,33,34,35,36 (5 items) Factor 2: Mental Health (MCS) (summary measure) Mental Health (MH): questions 24,25,26,28,30 (5 items) Role-Emotional (RE): questions 17,18,19 (3 items) Social Functioning (SF): questions 20,32 (2 items) Vitality (VT): questions 23, 27, 29, 31 (4 items) Self-reported Health Transition: question 2 By default, participants are required to answer all the questions in this script. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DURATION ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ the default set-up of the script takes under 5 minutes to complete ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DATA FILE INFORMATION ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The default data stored in the data files are: (1) Raw data file: 'rand36_ItemHealthSurvey.iqdat' date, time: date and time script was run with the current group/subjectnumber subject, group, session: with the current subject/groupnumber/session id build: the Inquisit build q*_response: response to a particular question (here in percentages); the anchors vary per question For a more detailed check, check assigned 'optionvalues' under each question under section QUESTIONS q*_latency: latency of clicking "next" the last time the page was visited (2) Summary data file: 'rand36_summary*.iqdat' (a separate file for each participant) inquisit.version: Inquisit version run computer.platform: the platform the script was run on (win/mac/ios/android) startDate: date script was run startTime: time script was started subjectid: assigned subject id number groupid: assigned group id number sessionid: assigned session id number elapsedTime: time it took to run script (in ms); measured from onset to offset of script completed: 0 = script was not completed (prematurely aborted); 1 = script was completed (all conditions run) the following scores save the percentage of total well-being (=100%) for each of the 8 (+1 extra) scales selfreported_HT: self-reported health transition => Physical Health (PCS) (summary measure: mean percentage of the individual responses to target questions) PF: Physical Functioning (PF): questions 3-12 RP: Role-Physical (RP): questions 13-16 (4 items) BP: Bodily Pain (BP): question 21-22 (2 items) GH: General Health (GH): questions 1,33,34,35,36 (5 items) => Mental Health (MCS) (summary measure: mean percentage of the individual responses to target questions) MH: Mental Health (MH): questions 24,25,26,28,30 (5 items) RE: Role-Emotional (RE): questions 17,18,19 (3 items) SF: Social Functioning (SF): questions 20,32 (2 items) VT: Vitality (VT): question 23, 27, 29, 31 (4 items) __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ EDITABLE CODE ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ check below for (relatively) easily editable parameters, stimuli, instructions etc. Keep in mind that you can use this script as a template and therefore always "mess" with the entire code to further customize your experiment. The parameters you can change are: /instructions: Contain the surveypage instructions. The default instructions ("Please answer the following questions") are not original to the survey and were addede by Millisecond Software.