Survey on Nurses' Stigma, Sympathy, and Helping Behavior Towards Alcohol Use Disorder

Shufen Wang published a survey dataset on 2026-04-22 via figshare. The data comprises responses from 348 clinical nurses in tertiary hospitals in China, assessing perceived stigma, emotional responses, and helping behavior tendencies towards patients with alcohol use disorders. The dataset is 70.1 KB and is licensed under CC-BY-4.0.

Use Cases

• Mediation analysis testing sympathy's role between stigma and helping behavior based on the described psychological constructs.
• Correlation studies between perceived stigma and emotional responses (sympathy, anger, fear) based on the survey scales mentioned.
• Comparative analysis of attitudes between psychiatric and non-psychiatric nurses based on the subgroup findings described.

Strengths

• Includes data from 348 clinical nurses, providing a specific sample size.
• Uses standardized scales for measuring perceived stigma, emotional responses, and helping behavior tendencies as described.
• Analysis includes mediation modeling with 5,000 bootstrap samples, indicating a structured analytical approach.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to its collection from Chinese tertiary hospitals.

Provenance

Source

Shufen Wang

Collection Method

A cross-sectional survey administered to clinical nurses.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-22 05:49:26; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Tertiary hospitals in China.