i have just been reviewing the mental health / psych wellbeing module in our questionnaire. It is a pretty standard one, reporting on the number of days / on a scale in the past week you have felt or behaved in certain ways (happy, overwhelmed in your head, etc). (1/n)

The more i look, the more i realize i couldn& #39;t answer a lot of the questions myself. Can i remember in the past 7 days if i felt worried... once? Or if it was the dominant emotion that day? (2/n)

The standard wording of the question doesn& #39;t help you understand if you are supposed to be reporting on whether you felt that way at least a bit on any given day or whether it was the dominant emotion. If the latter, in theory, there& #39;s a few ways you could feel and (3/n)

they should sum to 7 (e.g., i had two mostly happy days, two mostly overwhelmed days, etc).

Unless something major is happening, i am not sure how well i could reconstruct this, especially without reference back to my calendar and/or email (4/n)

Has been innovation in measuring mental health that i have missed? (Hope so!) Surely we can do better than some of these scales? What questions would we like asked about our own mental health (and could answer)? cc @jhaushofer @MilliLake @tom_wein @urmy_shukla (5/end)