RESPOND-HCWs: Mental Health Outcomes for Healthcare Workers in Spain

RESPOND-HCWs is a longitudinal dataset from a 2020-2023 EU-funded randomized controlled trial among Spanish healthcare workers with psychological distress. It contains anonymized participant-level data from a stepped-care mental health program evaluation. The dataset includes repeated measures of standardized self-reported mental health scales like PHQ-9, GAD-7, PCL-5, and K-10.

Use Cases

• Evaluating the effectiveness of a stepped-care mental health intervention based on randomized group assignment.
• Analyzing longitudinal trends in depression, anxiety, and PTSD symptoms based on repeated PHQ-9, GAD-7, and PCL-5 scores.
• Modeling psychological distress risk factors among healthcare workers based on Kessler Distress Scale (K-10) items.
• Comparing aggregated and cut-off scores across different standardized mental health instruments.

Strengths

• Data originates from a structured randomized controlled trial, suggesting a controlled study design.
• Includes multiple validated, standardized mental health assessment instruments (PHQ-9, GAD-7, PCL-5, K-10).
• Dataset is explicitly described as a long-format dataset, suitable for longitudinal analysis.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for specific modeling tasks.
• The dataset is a reduced and anonymized version, which may limit data granularity.

Provenance

Source

e-cienciaDatos Harvested Dataverse, authored by Roberto Mediavilla.

Collection Method

Data collected via a randomized controlled trial among healthcare workers in Spain.

Time Range

Project ran from 2020 to 2023; specific data collection period is not detailed.

Freshness

Last updated 2024-05-05 05:31:55; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Data collection was conducted in Spain.