___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ MICHIGAN ALCOHOL SCREENING TEST (revMAST) - revised ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Author: Katja Borchert, Ph.D. (katjab@millisecond.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC Date: 01-31-2013 last updated: 02-24-2022 by K. Borchert (katjab@millisecond.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC Script Copyright © 02-24-2022 Millisecond Software ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ BACKGROUND INFO ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ This script implements the revised Michigan Alcohol Screening Test (revMAST) with 22* YES/NO questions for a self-assessment of social and vocational issues related to heavy drinking: http://www.ou.edu/cwtraining/assets/pdf/handouts/1009/revMAST.pdf The original revMAST used 25 questions and a more elaborate scoring system. It was published by: Selzer, M.L. (1971). The Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test: The quest for a new diagnostic instrument. Am J Psychiatry, 127, 1653-1658. *Note: by default, this script asks for additional information in regard to question 22 (-> textbox.q23) ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ OVERVIEW ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Questionnaire with 22 binary yes-no questions. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DURATION ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ the default set-up of the script takes appr. 2 minutes to complete ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DATA FILE INFORMATION ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The default data stored in the data files are: (1) Raw data file: 'revmast22.iqdat' (a separate file for each participant) The raw questionnaire data are saved under "revMAST22.iqdat" numeric scores are saved in values.q1-values.q23 in revMAST22_summary.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: 1 (yes = 'alcoholic response') - 0 (no) R = automatically 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: 'revmast22_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) Summarydata for each participant: file saves the Total Score (range: 0-22) and the response to question 23 (number of arrests) totalscore: sum of all responses, 0-22 (The higher, the higher the 'alcoholic' response pattern) ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SCORING ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ alcoholic response = 1 point non-alcoholic response = 0 points Range: 0-22 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 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.