The Mindful Healthcare Scale

The Mindful Healthcare Scale

The MHS is a 13 item self report measure that measures psychological flexibility in the context of helping and social care professionals. It can be used to measure the effects of ACT training or well being support. The MHS validation is described in the following journal article: 

Gillanders, D., Fisher, S., Kidney, G., Ferreira, N., Morris, P. G., & Harkjaer-Thorgrimsen, L. M. (2024). The Mindful Healthcare Scale (MHS): Development and initial validation. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 33, 100817. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcbs.2024.100817

 

Scoring:

Engaged subscale: Reverse score items 3, 4, and 13 and add them to items 1 and  7. 

(Higher scores = greater engagement)

Awareness subscale: Reverse score items 5 and 10 and add them to items 6, 8, and 12

(Higher scores = greater awareness) 

Defusion subscale: Reverse score and sum items 2, 9, 11

(Higher scores = less fusion / greater defusion)

Total score = sum all items, after doing the reversals described above

 

Translations:

Translations are already underway in Turkish, Farsi, Chinese, Spanish and Italian. Feel free to contact me if you would like to undertake a translation into another language, my email address is in the JCBS article linked. Permission usually is conditional on making the items and data summary available here, not restricting access and keeping the scale free to use, and working together in a language community to avoid multiple translations being made. 

David Gillanders