Reorganization of Response Options - Health Brain Network (NIMH Content) Applet

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3. Scrolling requires an additional, albeit minor, effort. There are several questions where scrolling is present but fully unnecessary, and a few questions where scrolling might be avoided by screen reorganization. Concerning the category of what can be avoided for sure, one example is "Did you take sleeping pills..." with yes or no response options. "Yes" is at the bottom of the first screen, while "no" is on the next screen. There is a ton of blank space at the top of the first screen, so both response options can easily be put on a single screen. Easy fix. The same issue applies (for what I have seen so far) to the following questions with dichotomous response options:

-did you use social media
-have you taken off your activity monitor
-was the activity part of a planned exercise routine
-have you experienced any pain since you woke up
-is this the same headache that you reported in the last questionnaire
-does the headache increase with physical activity
-all questions about headache intensity triggers: e.g. Does light (or noise, or perfume) bother you

Reorganizing screens (by changing interline spacing or filling up unused space) to see if the multiple response options might fit on a single screen include these items:

-to what extent are you having positive thoughts
-o what extent are you having negative thoughts
-where these thoughts about...
-how severe were these thoughts...
-since waking up, did you drink any of the following...
-to what degree did this event have a positive impact...
-to what degree did this event have a negative impact...
-where did you experience this pain...(follow-up to the dichotomous question as to whether pain was experienced)
-where was the headache
-what vision changes did you experience

4. Some questions have a long list of response options. Among these responses, some are highly frequent are some are rare. For example, in response to the question "Where are you right now" it makes sense that the most frequent options of "In my own home" or "At work" appear at the top of the screen list. This is not the case, however, for food groups or headache triggers. Could the order of presentation of these items be randomized? We did this in previous versions of Kathleen's study.