Youth Behavior Risk Survey - YRBS - National Version

Technical Manual

Script Author: Katja Borchert, Ph.D. (katjab@millisecond.com), Millisecond

Created: January 29, 2019

Last Modified: January 01, 2023 by K. Borchert (katjab@millisecond.com), Millisecond

Script Copyright © Millisecond Software, LLC

Background

This script implements an Inquisit computer version of the 2019 High School (National HS) Youth Risk Behavior Risk Survey (YRBS) as published by:

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 2019 Youth Risk Behavior Survey. https://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/data/yrbs/questionnaires.htm; Accessed on 08/29/2019.

Duration

15 minutes

Overview

There are 99 questions covering health related areas such as drug use, alcohol use, sexual behavior, food behavior etc.

Summary Data

File Name: yrbs_national_2019_summary*.iqdat

Data Fields

NameDescription
inquisit.version Inquisit version number
computer.platform Device platform: win | mac |ios | android
startDate Date the session was run
startTime Time the session was run
subjectId Participant ID
groupId Group number
sessionId Session number
elapsedTime Session duration in ms
completed 0 = Test was not completed
1 = Test was completed

Raw Data

File Name: y2019yrbs_national.iqdat

Data Fields

NameDescription
date Date the session was run
time Time the session was run
subject, group, session With the current subject/groupnumber/session id
build Inquisit version number
q*_response Response given (in assigned values)
Scale: depends on question
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)

Parameters

The procedure can be adjusted by setting the following parameters.

NameDescriptionDefault
pageInstructions The instructions that appear at the top of each surveyPage