___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Screener Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale (ASRS) - 6 questions ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Script Author: Katja Borchert, Ph.D. (katjab@millisecond.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC Date: 02-28-2018 last updated: 02-17-2022 by K. Borchert (katjab@millisecond.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC Script Copyright © 02-17-2022 Millisecond Software ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ BACKGROUND INFO ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ This script implements a computerized version of the short ASRS screener instrument of adult ADHD (based on the the World Health Organization (WHO) 18-item ASRS) as introduced by: Kessler RC, Adler L, Ames M, Demler O, Faraone S, Hiripi E, Howes MJ, Jin R, Secnik K, Spencer T, Ustun TB, Walters EE. (2005). The World Health Organization Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale (ASRS): a short screening scale for use in the general population. Psychol. Med.; 35:245–256. Scoring of the 6 item ASRS in: van de Glind, G. et al (2013). Validity of the Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale (ASRS) as a screener for adult ADHD in treatment seeking substance use disorder patients. Drug Alcohol Depend, 132(3): 587–596. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ OVERVIEW ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 6 screening questions for adult ADHD, 5-point Likert scale ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DURATION ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ the default set-up of the script takes less than a minute to complete ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DATA FILE INFORMATION ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The default data stored in the data files are: (1) Raw data file: 'asrs_6.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 given (in assigned values) Scale: 0 (never) - 4 (very often) no reversed scored questions q*_latency: how much time (in ms) the participant spent on the surveypage with this particular question (the last time this particular surveypage was visited) (2) Summary data file: 'asrs_6_summary.iqdat' (Inquisit Lab: one data file per 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) ScreeningScore: => number of items with a positive score => screener ASRS is positive for adult ADHD with a score of 4 or above (van de Glind et al., 2013) categorized response values into positive or negative score for each of the 6 questions q1: 1 (=positive score) if question 1 has a raw score of 2 or higher; 0 (negative score) otherwise q2: 1 (=positive score) if question 2 has a raw score of 2 or higher; 0 (negative score) otherwise q3: 1 (=positive score) if question 3 has a raw score of 2 or higher; 0 (negative score) otherwise q4: 1 (=positive score) if question 4 has a raw score of 3 or higher; 0 (negative score) otherwise q5: 1 (=positive score) if question 5 has a raw score of 3 or higher; 0 (negative score) otherwise q6: 1 (=positive score) if question 6 has a raw score of 3 or higher; 0 (negative score) otherwise (see van de Glind et al, 2013, p.17) raw response scores (0-4) for each of the 6 questions: radiobuttons.q1.response-radiobuttons.q6.response ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 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: /pageinstructions: the instructions that appear at the top of each surveypage