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As the diagram suggests Phase 1 and 5 each lasted 1 month (just over 4 weeks), and there was
approximately 12 months in between the two phases. The administration of the tool twice allowed the project to
determine any changes in the organisation which have occurred over a number of months, which may be
particularly important in the ever-dynamic situation that public-sector organisations currently find themselves.
1a) Overall Stress Survey
1) Phase 1: Demographics & Descriptive Statistics
1a.1) Participants
The tools (see Appendix 3) were distributed using either the Survey Monkey link sent to staff using an email
sent to employees’ work email addresses (see Appendix 4 for a copy of the email sent to 161 of the 188 potential
participants, 85.6% of all staff), or via hard copy (see Appendix 5 for an example of the hard copy letter sent to the
remaining 14.4% staff members in the participating service).
Of the 27 hard copy requests sent to all eligible employees, 13 responded and took part in this section of the
study. This is a response rate of 48.2% for the potential ‘hard copy’ employees. With the email version 118
employees responded, a response rate of 73.3%. As such the overall response rate was 131 out of 188 requests,
69.7%.