READ ME File For 'Empathico Feasibility Trial Clinician Interview Excerpts' Dataset DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/D3440 Date that the file was created: March, 2025 ------------------- GENERAL INFORMATION ------------------- ReadMe Author: FELICITY BISHOP, University of Southampton [0000-0002-8737-6662 ] Date of data collection: 2020 Information about geographic location of data collection: England Related projects: Expectation Management for Patients in Primary Care: Developing and Feasibility Testing a New Digital Intervention for Practitioners; Tip Study 2: Testing the effects of communication skills e-learning for practitioners on patients’ musculoskeletal pain and enablement -------------------------- SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION -------------------------- Licenses/restrictions placed on the data, or limitations of reuse: CC-BY Recommended citation for the data: Felicity L Bishop, Jeremy Howick, Jane Vennik, Jennifer Bostock, Paul Little, Christian Mallen, Leanne Morrison, Mary Steele, Beth Stuart, Stephanie Hughes, Kirsten Smith, Mohana Ratnapalan, Emily Lyness, Hajira Dambha-Miller, Riya Tiwari, Clare Lockyer-Stevens, Hazel Everitt. (2025). Empathico Feasibility Trial Clinician Interview Excerpts. This dataset supports the publication: AUTHORS: Felicity L Bishop, Jeremy Howick, Jane Vennik, Jennifer Bostock, Paul Little, Christian Mallen, Leanne Morrison, Mary Steele, Beth Stuart, Stephanie Hughes, Kirsten Smith, Mohana Ratnapalan, Emily Lyness, Hajira Dambha-Miller, Riya Tiwari, Clare Lockyer-Stevens, Hazel Everitt TITLE: Feasibility trial of a new digital training package to enhance primary care practitioners’ communication of clinical empathy and realistic optimism JOURNAL: Plos One PAPER DOI IF KNOWN: Links to other publicly accessible locations of the data: N/A Links/relationships to ancillary or related data sets: -------------------- DATA & FILE OVERVIEW -------------------- This dataset contains: 1 file .docx File contains selected anonymised excerpts from qualitative interview transcripts generated during feasibility trial of a new digital training package (EMPathicO) to enhance primary care practitioners’ communication of clinical empathy and realistic optimism. File contains excerpts from 11 interviews with clinicians, grouped under high level descriptive codes. Relationship between files, if important for context: N/A Additional related data collected that was not included in the current data package: Full interview transcripts, from which the excerpts have been taken. If data was derived from another source, list source: Full interview transcripts are deposited in this dataset: Empathico Feasibility Trial Interview Transcripts If there are 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: Data were collected as part of a study designed to assess the feasibility of a cluster-randomized controlled trial in UK general practice to evaluate effects of a new brief digital learning package in empathy and optimism (EMPathicO) for primary care practitioners. The study ran January to October 2020, with COVID-19 related modifications (mostly, practitioner and patient data had to be collected separately) from March 2020. 9 practices and 12 primary care practitioners recruited from UK (Southern England, Midlands). 12 practitioners completed EMPathicO training and 11 completed qualitative audio-recorded semi-structured telephone interview, conducted by 1 of 2 female postdoctorate researchers. Interviews were anonymised on transcription by trained supervised students. Interviews lasted between 14 and 32 minutes. The topic guide comprised open-ended questions used flexibly to explore practitioners’ experiences and perceptions of barriers and facilitators to implementing the trial and to accessing and implementing EMPathicO. The feasibility study was registered on ISRCTN: https://doi.org.10.1186/ISRCTN21215037. Methods for processing the data: Qualitative interviews were transcribed verbatim, identifying details were removed and names replaced with pseudonyms. Thematic analysis was applied to the interviews, to identify barriers and facilitators to recruitment and retention and to explore the relevance, feasibility and acceptability of the outcome and process measures. Multiple researchers were involved in the qualitative analysis to guard against idiosyncratic or overly selective coding. Inductive codes were generated and used to code relevant speech. The selected excerpts comprise all excerpts coded as related to the main aims of the feasibility trial. Software- or Instrument-specific information needed to interpret the data, including software and hardware version numbers: NVivo version 14 (Lumivero, Denver, CO) was used to facilitate coding, organise qualitative data, and maintain an audit trail of the analysis. Standards and calibration information, if appropriate: N/A Environmental/experimental conditions: Data were collected in 2020, immediately preceding and during the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns in England. Describe any quality-assurance procedures performed on the data: Multiple researchers were involved in the qualitative analysis to guard against idiosyncratic or overly selective coding. Audit trail captured using NVivo. People involved with sample collection, processing, analysis and/or submission: Felicity L Bishop, Jane Vennik, Mary Steele, Stephanie Hughes, Kirsten Smith, Hazel Everitt. -------------------------- DATA-SPECIFIC INFORMATION -------------------------- Number of variables: N/A Number of cases/rows: N/A Variable list, defining any abbreviations, units of measure, codes or symbols used: N/A Missing data codes: N/A Specialized formats or other abbreviations used: Bold font indicates interviewer speech. Normal font indicates interviewee speech.