This DATSETNAMEreadme.txt file was generated on YYYY-MM-DD by NAME GENERAL INFORMATION 1. Title of Dataset: PhDMentalHealth_UKDataset 2. Author Information A. Principal Investigator Contact Information Name: Maria Aristeidou Institution: The Open University Address: Email: maria.aristeidou@open.ac.uk B. Associate or Co-investigator Contact Information Name: Angela Aristidou Institution: UCL School of Management Address: Email: a.aristidou@ucl.ac.uk C. Alternate Contact Information Name: Institution: Address: Email: 3. Date of data collection (single date, range, approximate date) : 2020-07-21 to 2020-08-23 4. Geographic location of data collection : UK 5. Information about funding sources that supported the collection of the data: Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University School of Management, UCL SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION 1. Licenses/restrictions placed on the data: CC BY 4.0 2. Links to publications that cite or use the data: N/A 3. Links to other publicly accessible locations of the data: N/A 4. Links/relationships to ancillary data sets: N/A 5. Was data derived from another source? no A. If yes, list source(s): 6. Recommended citation for this dataset: Aristeidou, Maria; Aristidou, Angela (2023): PhDMentalHealth_UKDataset. The Open University. https://doi.org/10.21954/ou.rd.22794203 DATA & FILE OVERVIEW 1. File List: 2. Relationship between files, if important: 3. Additional related data collected that was not included in the current data package: 4. Are there multiple versions of the dataset? yes/no A. If yes, name of file(s) that was updated: i. Why was the file updated? ii. When was the file updated? METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION 1. Description of methods used for collection/generation of data: Survey 2. Methods for processing the data: Raw data presented 3. Instrument- or software-specific information needed to interpret the data: Microsoft Excel, SPSS statistics (Version 26) 4. Standards and calibration information, if appropriate: N/A 5. Environmental/experimental conditions: Cross-sectional study (online survey) 6. Describe any quality-assurance procedures performed on the data: Exclusion of straight-lined data, similar responses and responses without institutional emails 7. People involved with sample collection, processing, analysis and/or submission: Maria Aristeidou DATA-SPECIFIC INFORMATION FOR: [FILENAME] 1. Number of variables: 17 2. Number of cases/rows: 1780 3. Variable List: Username, (anonymisation), nominal Gender, categorical (1 = Male, 2 = Female, 3 = Other) Age, categorical (18-24, 25-34, 35-44, 45-54, 55-64) Marital status, categorical (0 = Married/cc/partners, 1=single-divorced) Living in children (0 = yes, 1 = no) Discipline (Natural sciences, social science, humanities, formal sciences, applied sciences) Alloted time (Less than 3 years, 3 years, 4 years, more than 4 years) Mode (0 = Full time, 1 = Part time) Phase (Planning, executing, finishing, extension) Funding (Funded, self-funded, not funded) Extension (0 = Yes, 1 = No/I don't know) Impact reason (childcare & caring responsibilities, Personal illness, PhD continuation disruption, mental health, prefer not to say) Impact result (work fewer hourds, normal hours but cannot concentrate, don't work at all, prefer not to say) Impact on research progress (0 = Yes, 1 = No) Brief Cope Inventory (BCI), 4-point 28-item Likert scale Patient health questionnaire depresssion scale (PHQ-8) 4-point 8-item depression scale Performance satisfaction (5-point Likert scale) 4. Missing data codes: ~100 (missing categorical data) 5. Specialized formats or other abbreviations used: PHQ = Patient health questionnaire depresssion scale Cope = Brief Cope Inventory