___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ BEHAVIOURAL ASSESSMENT SCALE (BAS) ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Script Author: Katja Borchert, Ph.D. (katjab@millisecond.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC Date: 06-30-2014 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 the Behavioural Assessment Scale as described in: Ritchie, K. & Ledesert, B. (1991). The Measurement of Incapacity in the Severly Demented Elderly: The Validation of a Behavioural Assessment Scale. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 6, 217-226. The Behavioural Assessment Scale assesses the intellectual functioning and adaptive behaviors in patients suffering from severe dementia. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ OVERVIEW ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ the script presents 11 surveypages that cover the 5 subcategories (Language - 5 questions, Social Integration - 5 questions, Occupation & Orientation - 3 questions, Physical Independence - 16 questions, Mobility - 3 questions) described by Ritchie & Ledesert (1991) A total score (expressions.BAS_score) is calculated at the end. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DURATION ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ the default set-up of the script takes appr. 5 minutes to complete ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DATA FILE INFORMATION ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The default data stored in the data files are: (1) Raw data file: 'bas.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) - see individual questions under section QUESTIONS for assigned values (/optionvalues = ) 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: 'bas_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) checkboxscore: stores the scoresum of all items presented as checkboxes radiobuttonscore: calculates subtotal scoresum from all radiobutton items BAS_score: calculates the totalscore based on all 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: /pageinstructions: the instructions that appear at the top of each surveypage