User Manual: Inquisit Self-Injurious Thoughts and Behaviors Interview (SITBI)


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						*SELF-INJURIOUS THOUGHTS AND BEHAVIORS INTERVIEW (SITBI) - short form*
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Script Author: Katja Borchert, Ph.D. (katjab@millisecond.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC
Date: 07-24-2014
last updated:  10-12-2023 by K. Borchert (katjab@millisecond.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC

Script Copyright © 10-12-2023 Millisecond Software

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BACKGROUND INFO 	
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This script implements a computerized version of the  Self-Injurious Thoughts and Behaviors Interview (SITBI) 
(short-form) as described in:

Nock, M. K., Holmberg, E. B., Photos, V. I., & Michel, B. D. (2007). The Self-Injurious Thoughts and Behaviors Interview: 
Development, reliability, and validity in an adolescent sample. Psychological Assessment, 19, 309-317.

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OVERVIEW
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SITBI is an interview-based measure to uniformly assess the presence, frequency, and characteristics of 
(a) suicidal ideation, (b) suicide plans,  (c) suicide gestures, (d) suicide attempts, and (e) NSSI. 
(from: Nock et al, 2007, p.310). The script contains 72 questions spread across 20 surveyPages.

Notes:
1. By default, none of the questions have to be answered to through the survey. To change, go 
to section QUESTIONS and follow further instructions.

2. Screenshots of each surveyPage can be taken - go to section SURVEY and follow further instructions

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DURATION 
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the default set-up of the script takes appr. 5-10 minutes to complete

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DATA OUTPUT DICTIONARY
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The fields in the data files are:

(1) Raw data file: 'sitbi.iqdat' 

date, time, 					date and time script was run
group, subject, session:		with the current group/subject/sessionnumber 
build:							the Inquisit build 

q*_response:					response given (in assigned values)
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: 'SITBI_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)

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INSTRUCTIONS 
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can be changed under Editable Values

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EDITABLE CODE 
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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:

/title:						the survey title
/instructions:				the SITBI instructions