Outcome of the Discussion on Questionnaire

ME118 Research Team A

Research Project Title: Assessing Effectiveness of a Text-based Mental Health Coaching Application
in Improving Mental Well-Being among House Officers in Malaysia

Date: 12 December 2020

Note that all information here is not final subject to changes

Social Demographics [for all groups]

1. Age (in age groups)

2. Sex (male/female)
3. Nationality - Malaysians/non-Malaysians
4. Race (Malay, Chinese, Indian and others - specify)
5. Cohort in IMU (N/A for the other groups like faculty and housemen)
6. Course taken in IMU (N/A for other groups like faculty and housemen)
7. Highest Education Level (secondary, diploma, Degree, Masters, PhD)
8. Family income (below RM4.4k/between RM4.4k to RM9.6k/above RM9.6k – based on range
of B40/M40/T20)
9. Marital status (single/married/divorced/widowed/others)

Estimated time taken for demographic questions: 40 seconds

Time taken to complete each instrument (from 17 students)

Instruments used Time taken

DASS-21 Mean: 1 minute 50 seconds

Upper limit: 2 minutes 30 seconds

Lower limit: 1 minute 30 seconds

Satisfaction with Life Scale Mean: 50 seconds

Upper limit: 1 minute

Lower limit: 30 seconds

Brief Resilience Scale Mean: 45 seconds

Upper limit: 1 minute

Lower limit: 40 seconds

Goal attainment progress/overall goal N/A as we are unsure with the test details
attainment
 (it would be hard to standardise all answers as
everyone has different goals)

Some feedback regarding the instrument used ie DASS-21:

- Some words may need to be explained as it is not commonly used in Malaysia – cannot be
changed/rephrased as we will change the reliability and validity. Can add in brackets the
alternative explanation as below: [according to macmillan dictionary]
a) Wind down – to end, or to finish something gradually; to gradually reduce work before
stopping completely; to relax after a period of excitement or worry
b) Rather touchy – becoming angry or upset very easily; likely to make people angry or upset
c) Blue – feeling rather sad

Feedback for Different Combinations:

Combinations Comments

DASS-21 + Goal Attainment Participants feel that it is troublesome to type

in sentences compared to just clicking choices,
hard to compile information as everyone has
different goals

DASS-21 + Satisfaction with Life scale Too short, less metrics used

DASS-21 + Satisfaction with Life scale + Brief Appropriate number of metrics, time taken is
Resilience Scale not too long

DASS-21 + Brief Resilience Scale Too short, less metrics used

Final selection: DASS-21 + Satisfaction with Life scale + Brief Resilience Scale

Total time taken for these 3 metrics: 3 minutes 30 seconds

By taking into account of the time for demographic questions:

40 seconds + 3 minutes 30 seconds = 4 minutes 5 seconds **Less than 5 minutes **