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{{Tool Infobox|Related topics=Mood}}

{{Tool Infobox|Related topics=Mood}}

State and symptom surveying is about user answering and filling out values for amount something has happened in a just passed time period. Examples include tracking [[mood]] now, and back pain over the past 5 hours. This type of tool can be used to track almost anything but is vulnerable to the issues inherent in self assessment. Self questionnaire is a type of [[Manual input]]. Compared to [[Tools for journaling, thoughts and note taking|journaling and note taking]], survey and assessment is less flexible but much easier to analyze.   

'''State and symptom surveying''' is about user answering and filling out values for amount something has happened in a just passed time period. Examples include tracking [[mood]] now, and back pain over the past 5 hours. This type of tool can be used to track almost anything but is vulnerable to the issues inherent in self assessment. Self questionnaire is a type of [[Manual input]]. Compared to [[Tools for journaling, thoughts and note taking|journaling and note taking]], survey and assessment is less flexible but much easier to analyze.   

== Apps ==

== Apps ==

* Best Life: Health Diary<ref>https://www.llif.org/our-software</ref>, includes a mobile app and web app to track moods, symptoms, life events, environmental details

* Best Life: Health Diary<ref>https://www.llif.org/our-software</ref>, includes a mobile app and web app to track moods, symptoms, life events, environmental details

* Track & Graph

* Track & Graph

* bearable.app

* bearable.app

* KeepTrack

* KeepTrack

* Spread sheet like [[Excel]]

* Spread sheet like [[Excel]]

== Self Assessment ==

== Self Assessment ==

The whole act of manually trying to turn experience into a number. Not self report because you are not reporting to anyone but yourself and so other people's opinions do not matter. According to the wikipedia, this process is called something else<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambulatory_assessment</ref><ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience_sampling_method</ref>, not self assessment<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-assessment</ref>.  

The whole act of manually trying to turn experience, qualia,<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia</ref> into a number. Not considered as reliable as concrete data because people can just make it up. Not self report because you are not reporting to anyone but yourself. Users will avoid recording embarrassing things, even if they are only hiding from themselves. According to the wikipedia, this process is called something else<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambulatory_assessment</ref><ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience_sampling_method</ref>, not self assessment<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-assessment</ref>.  

[[Mood]], psychological factors, focus, and interest in the issue can all complicate the data. For example Psychogenic pain<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychogenic_pain</ref>.   

[[Mood]], psychological factors, focus, and interest in the issue can all complicate the data. For example Psychogenic pain<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychogenic_pain</ref>.   

'''Simplify'''. Consider all the situations that may occur, information that is compressed into, and things that may influence the scale. The more complicated the variable the more ambiguity in it and effort it will require. It may be easier to split one variable into multiple different variables.

'''Simplify'''. Consider all the situations that may occur, information that is compressed into, and things that may influence the scale. The more complicated the variable the more ambiguity in it and effort it will require. It may be easier to split one variable into multiple different variables.

 

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