German General Practitioners Survey on Social Prescribing Awareness and Perspectives

A cross-sectional survey of 101 German general practitioners explores their awareness and perspectives on social prescribing. The data was collected via questionnaire and analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The study was authored by Dora E. Haxhija and last updated in May 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze GP familiarity with social prescribing based on survey responses.
• Assess perceived barriers to implementation based on reported lack of time and knowledge.
• Investigate correlations between practice location and willingness to adopt social prescribing.
• Study the types of social issues GPs encounter that could be addressed through social prescribing.

Strengths

• Survey includes responses from 101 German general practitioners.
• Analysis includes inferential statistics to identify significant relationships, such as higher SP adoption likelihood in towns under 5,000 population.
• Dataset is openly licensed under CC-BY-4.0.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The response rate was 7.9%, which may affect representativeness.

Provenance

Source

Dora E. Haxhija via figshare.

Collection Method

Cross-sectional survey distributed to German general practitioners.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-13 05:34:18; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Germany.