Thank you for choosing to participate in the Mental Health Strategies for OSINT Professionals Project! Your participation is paramount to the success of this project aimed at providing OSINT professionals resources to improve mental health outcomes and reduce burnout in the OSINT community.

Summary of Mental Health Strategies for OSINT Professionals Project

The Mental Health Strategies for OSINT Professionals Project (MSH4OSINT) is a crowd-sourced, data driven project aimed at collecting, validating, categorizing, and distributing mental health strategies freely for the OSINT community.

Researchers on this project aim to collect Strategies (specific actions, behaviors, or modifications of belief that will lessen the negative impacts of vicarious trauma when exposed to distressing content) from a wide variety of OSINT practitioners and validate their effectiveness using empirical evidence. Once validated, Strategies will then be categorized using qualitative research methodology and distributed to the OSINT community via DarkOwl’s website, presentations at conferences, social media, and other typical ways of reaching OSINT professionals.

More details on this research can be found in our blog post in honor of World Mental Health Day.

Before continuing, you should understand the following:

• Your participation is anonymous – we will not be collecting any identifying information from participants, and data will largely be reported in aggregate.
• Your participation is voluntary – you are free to leave the survey at any time for any reason.
• You will not be paid or otherwise compensated for participation.
• This survey should take between 5-10 minutes to complete.
• Your responses will be used solely for this research project – this data will not be used for any other purpose (marketing, etc.).

Thank you for your participation in this project! We look forward to disseminating results to the community once adequate data is collected. Please reach out to [email protected] with any questions or concerns you may have.