User Manual: Inquisit Youth Behavior Risk Survey (YRBS) - High School Version (Local and State)


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					YOUTH RISK BEHAVIOR SURVEY (YRBS) - High School Version (State & Local)
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Script Author: Katja Borchert, Ph.D. (katjab@millisecond.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC
Date: 08-29-2019
last updated:  11-01-2023 by K. Borchert (katjab@millisecond.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC

Script Copyright © 11-01-2023 Millisecond Software

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BACKGROUND INFO 	
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This script implements an Inquisit computer version of the 2019 High School (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.

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OVERVIEW
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There are 89 questions covering health related areas such as drug use, alcohol use, sexual behavior, food behavior etc.

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DURATION 
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the default set-up of the script takes appr. 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: 'y2019yrbs_hs.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: 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)

(2) Summary data file: 'yrbs_hs_2019_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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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:

/pageInstructions:			the instructions that appear at the top of each surveyPage