Network Feedback
The resulting PCN can be visualized immediately within the online questionnaire and shown back to the participant.
This creates both a potential clinical feature and an additional validation opportunity.
Immediate feedback questions
After viewing the network, participants can rate:
- How well does this network represent how your problems are connected?
- Does the network contain information about you that the questionnaire alone did not capture?
- Does the network help you understand your problems?
- Do you recognize yourself in this representation?
- Does the visualization make important connections clearer?
- Could this representation be useful in a therapeutic conversation?
Possible domains:
- representativeness,
- coherence,
- insight,
- personalization,
- perceived control,
- usefulness,
- motivation.
Participant refinement
A particularly informative validation step is to allow participants to edit the network after first viewing it.
Possible edits:
- delete an edge,
- add an edge,
- change direction,
- change strength.
This yields a direct measure of how much of the automatically elicited network is retained after reflection.
Experimental extension
Participants could be randomized to:
- standard questionnaire feedback,
- questionnaire feedback + individualized PCN feedback.
Immediate outcomes could test whether the relational visualization itself adds value.
See Study Design.
Visualization principles
The visualization should:
- use the questionnaire items or short participant-friendly labels as nodes,
- make edge direction clear,
- encode strength intuitively,
- avoid implying scientific certainty,
- and be easy to interpret on both desktop and mobile devices.