___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ BECK'S DEPRESSION INVENTORY II (BDI-II) (French Version) ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Script Author: Katja Borchert, Ph.D. (katjab@millisecond.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC Date: 07-29-2014 last updated: 03-31-2023 by K. Borchert (katjab@millisecond.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC Script Copyright © 03-31-2023 Millisecond Software Millisecond Software thanks Dr. Sylvain Iceta for sharing his French translations! ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ BACKGROUND INFO ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ This script implements the Beck's Depression Inventory II (BDI-II). The BDI was originally introduced in: Beck, AT, Ward, CH, Mendeson, M, Mock, J. & Erbaugh, J. (1961). An Inventory for Measuring Depression. Archives of General Psychiatry,6 , 561-571. and revised in 1996. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ OVERVIEW ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 21-question multiple-choice self-report inventory ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DURATION ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ the default set-up of the script takes appr. 3 minutes to complete ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DATA OUTPUT DICTIONARY ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The fields in the data files are: (1) Raw data file: 'bdi_2_french.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 0-3; q16 & q18 might have additional letters attached to the number) q*_latency: how much time the participant spent on the surveyPage with this particular question (the last time this particular surveyPage was visited) (2) Summary data file: 'bdi_2_french_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) totalScoreBdi: the sum of all numeric scores (Range: 0-63) assessment: According to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beck_Depression_Inventory 0–13: minimal depression 14–19: mild depression 20–28: moderate depression 29–63: severe depression. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 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