READ ME File For 'Dataset in support of the thesis 'Food cravings: What psychosocial interventions have been used to reduce them and what is the effectiveness of an adapted eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR) protocol at reducing the intensity of craving-related mental imagery and cravings?' Dataset DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/D3264 Date that the file was created: March, 2024 ------------------- GENERAL INFORMATION ------------------- ReadMe Author: ALICE COULSON, University of Southampton Date of data collection: 26/11/23 - 19/11/23 & 02/01/24 - 12/02/24 Information about geographic location of data collection: collected online via Qualtrics, uploaded to pure. Related projects: Data collected in partnership with research project undertaken by Imogen Flack, University of Southampton, for DClin Psych thesis. -------------------------- SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION -------------------------- Licenses/restrictions placed on the data, or limitations of reuse: data will be embargoed for 24 months from October 2024 - October 2026, after which data may be made available for re-use). Recommended citation for the data: This dataset supports the publication: AUTHORS: Alice Coulson, Imogen Flack, Catherine Brignell, Lisa Cant TITLE: An experimental study examining the effect of bilateral eye movments on food-related mental imagery and food cravings. JOURNAL:un-published at present PAPER DOI IF KNOWN:n/a Links to other publicly accessible locations of the data: n/a Links/relationships to ancillary or related data sets: related data set will be Imogen Flack's data set, also published on Pure and embargoed for the same length of time. -------------------- DATA & FILE OVERVIEW -------------------- This dataset contains: AliceCoulson_ThesisData - this includes all anonymised data that was collected from participants. AliceCoulson_Codebook - this includes detail of the SPSS codes relating to the data sheet. Relationship between files, if important for context: the codebook relates to the codes used in the SPSS data sheet. Additional related data collected that was not included in the current data package: n/a If data was derived from another source, list source: n/a If there are there multiple versions of the dataset, list the file updated, when and why update was made: n/a -------------------------- METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION -------------------------- Description of methods used for collection/generation of data: the data was collected via Qualtrics, pre, post and during a 4-week group intervention. The data is self-report. Methods for processing the data: the data was downloaded into SPSS from qualtrics, cleaned and anonymised. Software- or Instrument-specific information needed to interpret the data, including software and hardware version numbers: SPSS (IBM, version 29) Standards and calibration information, if appropriate: n/a Environmental/experimental conditions: participants were allocated to one of three conditions, an eye movement condition, a working memory condition and an image only condition (which did not include a dual task) Describe any quality-assurance procedures performed on the data: n/a People involved with sample collection, processing, analysis and/or submission: Alice Coulson, Imogen Flack, Catherine Brignell, Lisa Cant and Sophie Rushbrook (external to the University of Southampton). -------------------------- DATA-SPECIFIC INFORMATION -------------------------- Number of variables: 8 self-report measures, 3 conditions. Number of cases/rows: 14 participants. Variable list, defining any abbreviations, units of measure, codes or symbols used: FCQ-Tr - Food craving questionnaire trait FCQ-S - Food craving questionnaire state Visual Analogue Scale to measure feeling state Visual Analogue Scale to measure pleasantness Visual Analogue Scale to meausure craving Visual Analogue Scale to meausre vividness TFEQ - Three Factor Eating Questionnaire DEBQ - Dutch Eating Behaviour Questionnaire Missing data codes:n/a Specialized formats or other abbreviations used: n/a