___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ CAGE QUESTIONNAIRE (Cutting down, Annoyance by criticism, Guilty feelings, end Eyeopeners) ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Script Author: Katja Borchert, Ph.D. (katjab@millisecond.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC Date: 12-08-2016 last updated: 04-05-2023 by K. Borchert (katjab@millisecond.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC Script Copyright © 04-05-2023 Millisecond Software ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ BACKGROUND INFO ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ This script implements the CAGE questionnaire (identifying possible alcoholism) as described in: Ewing JA. Detecting alcoholism. The CAGE questionnaire. J Am Med Assoc 1984;252:1905–1907. MAYFIELD, D., MCCLEOD, G. & HALL, P. (1974) The CAGE questionnaire: validation of a new alcoholism screening instrument, American Journal of Psychiatry, 131, pp. 1121-1123. Ewing JA, Rouse SA: Identifying the hidden alcohollc. Presented at the 29th International Congress on Alcohol and Drug Dependence, Sydney, Australia, Feb 3, 1970. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ OVERVIEW ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 4 yes/no questions ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DURATION ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ the default set-up of the script takes less than 1 minute to complete ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DATA OUTPUT DICTIONARY ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The fields in the data files are: (1) Raw data file: 'cage.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 = no, 1 = yes 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: 'cage_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) cageScore: total score (yes = 1; No = 0) => Range 0-4 Ewing (1984) suggests a physician use the CAGE survey to "determine his index of suspicion that alcoholism may exist. Thus, even one positive reply calls for further inquiry." + responses to individual questions q1-q4 with 0 = no; 1 = yes ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ INSTRUCTIONS ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ can be changed under section SURVEYPAGES