Table 3.

Importance rates of overarching themes for different diary design topics

	Nature of the variable	Reliability	Feasibility	Statistics
Study duration	9 (7, 9)	9 (7, 9)	8 (8, 9)	8 (7, 9)
Measurement frequency	9 (8, 10)	8 (7, 9)	8 (8, 9)	8 (6, 9)
Random or fixed assessment	7 (5, 8)	8 (7, 9)	7 (6, 9)	8 (6, 9)
Momentary or retrospective assessment	9 (9, 10)	8 (7, 9)	7 (5, 8)	7 (5, 8)
Delay allowed to respond	8 (7, 9)	8 (7, 9)	8 (7, 9)	6 (4, 8)

Note: Assessed on a scale ranging from 1 (not important) to 10 (extremely important), more details are given in the method section

Medians (Interquartile range) are given