___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Mediterranean Diet Assessment (MEDAS) ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Script Author: Katja Borchert, Ph.D. (katjab@millisecond.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC Date: 09-19-2023 last updated: 09-19-2023 by K. Borchert (katjab@millisecond.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC Script Copyright © 09-19-2023 Millisecond Software ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ BACKGROUND INFO ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ This script implements Millisecond's computerized version of the Mediterranean Diet Assessment (MEDAS). *Reference*: Martínez-González, M. A., et al (2012). A 14-item Mediterranean diet assessment tool and obesity indexes among high-risk subjects: the PREDIMED trial. PloS One, 7(8), e43134–e43134. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0043134 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ OVERVIEW ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ self-report measure consisting of 14 questions ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DURATION ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ the default set-up of the script takes appr. 3 minute to complete __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DATA OUTPUT DICTIONARY ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The fields in the data files are: (1) Raw data file: 'medas.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 (almost never) - 4 (almost always) R: reversed coded questions (if any) 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: 'medas_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) //summary score medasTotal: the total score (range 0-14) based on the translated raw responses //translated raw responses q1 - q14: the translated raw responses (max 1 point) point distribution in table 1 in Martínez-González et al (2012) //raw responses radioButtons.q1.response, textbox.q2.response, textbox.q3.response, textbox.q4.response, textbox.q5.response, textbox.q6.response, textbox.q7.response, textbox.q8.response, textbox.q9.response, textbox.q10.response, textbox.q11.response, textbox.q12.response, radioButtons.q13.response, textbox.q14.response: