Five categories emerged from the data: feelings, preparation for role and expectations, resources, challenges, and mentorship.
The written qualitative data described feeling confirmed and feeling increased self-efficacy, self-care and faith in the future.
People felt calm when they could browse through vast amount of data not feeling pressured to feel any way but their way.
And contrary to popular belief it's not because I spend my life answering emails - it's more because I've learned how to handle the massive influx of data without feeling the need to fix it all.
Overall, a high proportion of patients in the survey data reported feeling confident in the doctors (80%, 41/51) and being treated with respect and dignity by doctors (80%, 41/51) and nurses (80%, 42/52) in hospital.
The most extreme statement of this position comes from this comment from the consultation session, "If they do want to decide how best to model their empirical data, my feeling is that this would make a decent second paper for a modeling journal.
While I am optimistic about the long-term prospects for saving lives through data, my feelings on care.data's launch were similar to those of Ben Goldacre who felt severely let down by its deployment.
As arbitrary or frivolous as the pursuit might seem, music critics and armchair oddsmakers have made it an annual tradition to attempt to predict the "song of the summer" using past data, gut feelings, tea leaves, etc.
According to Pew Research Center and Gallup data, unfavorable feelings about Muslims are higher if you are white, older, Republican, married, less educated, and/or under- or un-exposed to the religious "other".
Data on feelings of discrimination and patient's satisfaction will also be collected at the baseline and 12 months later.
