GenEdit : a generic editor and tools for questionnaires

The objective of this master thesis is to design and develop a generic editor for questionnaires together with some useful add-on tools suitable for many different applications. This generic editor should be able to manage any questionnaires which collect time-oriented, highly structured data regardless of a specific problem. Hence, the questionnaires have to be generated during run-time on demand using various configuration files for the start-up of a specific application. The implementation aims at being as general as possible to be useful for as many problems as possible.

Finally, the generic editor is demonstrated on the case of questionnaires used during a clinical trial which takes place at the Department of Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry at the Medical University of Vienna. This psychotherapeutic study analyses alternative therapeutic processes of anorectic girls by collecting a huge amount of highly structured time-oriented data through questionnaires. The generic editor should simplify the management of the questionnaires as well as the collection the data necessary for this study.