Mindfulness and response in NHS staff engagers (MindArise) - Data and codebook

MindArise was an online, observational investigation of healthcare staff across 53 sites, which ran from September 2022 to September 2023 as part of Daniel Cullen’s PhD at the University of Sussex, supervised by Professor Kate Cavanagh and Professor Clara Strauss.This investigation mapped the mindfulness landscape and examined associations between ongoing mindfulness practice and psychological outcomes like stress. Areas of focus included potential dose-response relationships between formal/informal mindfulness practice and outcomes, potential facilitators and barriers to dose response, and social identification with mindfulness in-groups.Participants were healthcare staff working for England’s National Health Service (NHS), and had at least some experience of mindfulness, either previous or current. Participant-facing materials (i.e., participant information sheets and informed consent forms) were presented online to ensure understanding, eligibility and consent. Successful completion of electronic consent forms triggered automated invitations/links to complete online questionnaires, at baseline, 3 months, and 6 months. Optional online interviews were additionally conducted with 20 participants.1611 participants consented to their de-identified data being shared with other research teams and made publicly available for future analysis; this was indicated by their having ticked yes to this option in electronic consent forms. The MindArise_Data file contains the data that they consented to share. To protect participants’ anonymity, potential identifiers have been removed from this data upload, including all protected characteristics, as per Sponsor/GDPR guidance. Optional free-text comments have also been removed to protect participant anonymity.Invalid questionnaire data has been removed, including duplicate entries, incomplete/mostly incomplete entries, entries with inadequate variation across scales, entries with implausible completion times, and entries of participants who later withdrew from the investigation. Reverse-scoring of relevant scale items has been performed already, meaning the dataset is ready for use.The MindArise_Codebook file contains all information needed to understand the MindArise_Data file, cross-referencing truncated variable names with their full description, time point/s they were measured, and their units of measurement.

MindArise是一项覆盖53个研究站点的在线观察性研究，于2022年9月至2023年9月开展，为Daniel Cullen于萨塞克斯大学（University of Sussex）攻读博士学位期间的研究项目，由Kate Cavanagh教授与Clara Strauss教授共同指导。本研究旨在勾勒正念（mindfulness）实践的整体图景，并探究持续性正念练习与压力等心理结局之间的关联，研究重点涵盖正式/非正式正念练习与研究结局间潜在的剂量-反应（dose-response）关系、影响剂量-反应关系的潜在促进因素与阻碍因素，以及对正念内群体的社会认同。研究参与者为英格兰国家医疗服务体系（National Health Service, NHS）的医护人员，且既往或当前具备至少一定的正念练习经验。面向参与者的研究材料（即参与者信息告知单与知情同意书（informed consent forms））以线上形式呈现，以确保参与者充分理解研究内容、确认入选资格并完成知情同意流程。成功提交电子知情同意书的参与者，将自动收到基线、3个月及6个月三个时间点的线上问卷填写邀请与链接。此外，研究还对20名参与者开展了可选的线上访谈。共有1611名参与者同意将其去标识化数据共享给其他研究团队，并公开用于后续分析，该同意状态可通过其在电子知情同意书中勾选"是"得以确认。MindArise_Data文件即包含这些参与者同意共享的研究数据。为保护参与者的匿名性，本数据上传文件已按照资助方及通用数据保护条例（General Data Protection Regulation, GDPR）的指引，移除了所有潜在识别信息，包括所有受保护的特征；同时为进一步保障匿名性，可选的自由文本评论也已被剔除。无效问卷数据已被剔除，包括重复条目、不完整或近乎不完整的条目、量表作答缺乏足够变异性的条目、作答时长不合理的条目，以及后续退出研究的参与者的条目。相关量表的反向计分工作已预先完成，因此本数据集可直接用于分析。MindArise_Codebook文件包含了理解MindArise_Data文件所需的全部信息，可将截断后的变量名与其完整描述、测量时间点及测量单位进行对应关联。