﻿*** An Interactive Suicide Ideation Self-Test Service for Helping People Resolve Barriers towards Contacting a Suicide Prevention Helpline *** 
Author: S. Chen
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Delft University  of  Technology


***General Introduction***
This dataset contains data collected during mental health self-test service experiments at 113 Zelfmoord Preventie and Delft University of Technology, as part of Siyu Chen’s Master Thesis project (September 2021).
It is being made public both to act as supplementary data for the Master thesis of Siyu Chen and in order for other researchers to use this data in their own work.


The data in the dataset was collected online via Prolific during November 2020.


​​The purpose of the study is to explore the effect of having an interactive mental health self-test service to guide people to take the test and resolve their barriers towards seeking help from professionals (e.g.: a helpline service for mental health) and motivate them to contact professionals for further help. 
***Variables***
**Manipulated variables**
Variable: The format of the online mental health self-test service.
Two levels nominal: A traditional self-test service with textual feedback, an interactive self-test service with interactions between the service program and the test taker. 


**Measured variables**
The first measured variable is test-takers' motivation levels towards seeking professional psychological help in the pre-questionnaire and the post-questionnaire. Their motivation towards seeking professional psychological help was measured by using the Attitudes Toward Seeking Professional Psychological Help – Short Form(Fischer E.H. and Farina A.. 1995).  This questionnaire was answered with a four-point Likert-type scale (0=“Disagree” to 3=“Agree”). A Help-Seeking Willingness question, which was inspired by the Help-Seeking Willingness Scale (Han, Chen, Hwang, and Wei. 2006), was also used to measure this variable. This question was answered with a 7-point scale ranging from not at all via neutral to very much. 


The second and third measured variables are:
      A: test-takers' feeling of being heard;
      B: test-takers' satisfaction with the whole self-test service.
Test-takers' feeling of being heard was measured by using the Feeling of Being Heard (FBH) questionnaire from M. Tielman's research on considering patient safety in autonomous e-mental health systems (Tielman M. et al.. 2019). This questionnaire was answered with a 7-point scale ranging from not at all via neutral to very much.
Test-takers' satisfaction with the whole self-test service was measured by using the Client Satisfaction Questionnaire (4-item) (Attkisson, C.. 1996). This questionnaire was answered with a four-point Likert-type scale (0=“Poor” to 3=“Excellent”). 


The fourth measured variable is the test takers' perceived usefulness of the self-tests. Test takers' perceived usefulness of the self-tests was measured by using the Intrinsic Motivation Inventory Usefulness Subscale (McAuley, E., Duncan, T. and Tammen, V.. 1989). This questionnaire was answered with a 5-point Likert-type scale (1=“Strongly disagree” to 5=“Strongly agree”).


***Exploratory analysis***
Three additional variables (age, gender and self-involvement) were included in the exploratory analysis.
Self-involvement: to explore if the difference of participants' self-involvement on the mental health topic would influence their performance in the experiment, before starting the experiment, participants were asked to answer a questionnaire (3 questions), derived from Issue Involvement Check Questions (Maheswaren and Myers-Levy. 1990)


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