Stakeholder Survey on Warfighter Brain Health Process Improvement

64 U.S. Special Operations Forces-affiliated stakeholders responded to a web-based survey from April to June 2025. The survey addressed community issues, symptom priorities, tool needs, and preferred information formats for Warfighter Brain Health efforts. The dataset, authored by Rebecca A. Ivory, is a supplementary document summarizing the survey's descriptive and weighted ranking analyses.

Use Cases

• Identify priority symptoms for clinical monitoring based on weighted rankings of attention/concentration and decision-making changes.
• Guide the development of self-administered neurocognitive and symptom tracking tools based on stakeholder tool priorities.
• Inform the creation of educational content formats, such as brief videos and personal testimonials, based on preferred online formats.
• Support Department of Defense brain health objectives by analyzing gaps in medical knowledge and access to specialized care.

Strengths

• Includes survey results from 64 U.S. Special Operations Forces-affiliated stakeholders.
• Analyses include descriptive statistics and a secondary weighted priority score for ranking items.
• Clear temporal coverage from approximately 15 April to 15 June 2025.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Anonymous web-based survey of a convenience sample.

Time Range

Approximately 15 April to 15 June 2025

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-21 04:37:45; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United States (U.S. Special Operations Forces-affiliated stakeholders)