HiTOP-SR Instrument

Welcome to the HiTOP Self-Report (HiTOP-SR) instrument resources page. This questionnaire contains 405 items and can be used to score 76 scales and 17 subscales indexing different aspects of psychopathology. Here you can download ready-to-use versions of the instrument or explore the powerful tools provided by the hitop R package to customize, score, and analyze your data.

Ready-to-Use Downloads

Choose the format that best fits your immediate research needs.

📄 Printable Document

Use these Microsoft Word documents for printing, paper administration, or sending to the IRB.

English (A4 Paper)2026-07-16 English (US Paper)2026-07-16

📊 Qualtrics Import

Use this specially formatted text file to easily import the instrument directly into your Qualtrics surveys.

English (TXT File)2026-07-16

Import Instructions

🏥 REDCap Import

Use this compressed archive file to import the instrument as a new instrument in your REDCap project.

English (ZIP File)2026-07-16

Import Instructions

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Explore the R Package Features

The hitop package provides a complete toolkit for working with the HiTOP-SR. If you are comfortable using R, you can leverage these functions to streamline your workflow.

📋 Instrument Information

Access the complete item dictionary, structural hierarchy, and subscale definitions directly from the package namespace.

Items Scales Subscales Definitions

🛠️ Custom File Generation

Need to change the formatting, adapt the instructions, or translate the text? Build customized DOCX, Qualtrics, and REDCap files programmatically.

Printable Qualtrics REDCap

🧮 Scoring & Reliability

Calculate subscales, handle reverse-coding, and generate reliability metrics in one step, or access the underlying internal consistency functions directly.

Score HiTOP-SR Alpha Reliability Omega Reliability

📊 Example Datasets

Test your analysis pipelines using built-in datasets, including a real validation sample and simulated respondent data.

Real Data Simulated Data

Versions

Every download button above shows its file’s build date; a new build date means the distributed file changed. The instrument itself is version 1.0.

Current builds & version history

Current builds

File	Format	Instrument version	Build date
hitopsr_A4.docx	DOCX (A4 paper)	1.0	2026-07-16
hitopsr_qualtrics.txt	Qualtrics import	1.0	2026-07-16
hitopsr_redcap.zip	REDCap import	1.0	2026-07-16
hitopsr_US.docx	DOCX (US paper)	1.0	2026-07-16

If your downloaded file shows an older build date, simply re-download it to get the latest build. The full build manifest (including file checksums) ships in the package as hitop_artifacts.

Version history

2026-07-16

Versioning system introduced: files renamed from the _1.0_ filename scheme and DOCX footers gain a build stamp.
hitopsr_A4.docx, hitopsr_qualtrics.txt, hitopsr_redcap.zip, hitopsr_US.docx