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

<p dir="ltr">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.</p><p dir="ltr">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.</p><p dir="ltr">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.</p><p dir="ltr">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.</p><p dir="ltr">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.</p><p dir="ltr">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.</p>