READ ME File For 'An investigation into compassion, moral injury, burnout and psychological distress in first responders' Dataset DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/D3204 ReadMe Author: David Singleton, University of Southampton, ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-8865-2624 This dataset supports the thesis entitled: An Investigation into Compassion, Moral Injury, Burnout and Psychological Distress in First Responders AWARDED BY: Univeristy of Southampton DATE OF AWARD: 2024 DESCRIPTION OF THE DATA The data comprises of anonymous demographic characteristics, eligibility data to parttake in the study, attention questions to detect possible bots, and then data from nine questionnaires. The questionnaires were the MIES, OLBI, CEAS, FCSRS, FCS, CORE-10, PLC-5, EISS and the AUDIT. The data was collected using the University approved online survey programme 'Qualtrics'. Data was then exported into an SPSS file for data analysis. Date of data collection: September 2023 - March 2024 Information about geographic location of data collection: All data is from a UK population Licence: CC-BY Related projects/Funders: None Related publication: The chapter of the thesis is aimed to be submitted for publication. Date that the file was created: August, 2024 --------------