Data Sheet 1_Research on influencing factors and improvement paths of rational medication

1,436 valid questionnaires from a survey of 1,500 college students across six universities in Zhejiang Province. The data includes medication literacy scores across four dimensions and variables such as gender, social support, and academic factors. Author Peiwen Wu published the dataset under CC-BY-4.0 license on figshare in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Modeling factors influencing medication literacy based on variables like gender, social support, and mother's education level.
• Analyzing differences in medication literacy scores across dimensions such as non-prescription drug knowledge and drug advertisement awareness.
• Investigating the relationship between university characteristics, course enrollment, and student health literacy outcomes.
• Studying sources of medical information for students, such as internet media platforms and campus clinic staff.

Strengths

• Includes 1,436 valid survey responses with a 95.73% response rate.
• Provides specific medication literacy scores (mean 11.32 ± 4.75) and breakdowns across four dimensions.
• Analysis includes effect sizes for ten influencing factors, such as long-term medication use (0.162) and gender (0.160).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data reflects geographic bias inherent to a survey conducted only in Zhejiang Province, China.

Provenance

Source

Peiwen Wu via figshare.

Collection Method

Stratified convenience sampling survey across six universities.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-10 05:58:22; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Zhejiang Province, China.