Survey of Career Planning and Health Behaviors in 3,335 Chinese Medical Students

Survey data from 3,335 medical students across 34 universities in China, collected by Yuanlong Huang. The dataset includes scores for health behaviors, life satisfaction, and career planning, measured using standardized scales. The study employed a mixed-methods design, combining cross-sectional surveys with semi-structured interviews.

Use Cases

• Analyze correlations between career planning dimensions and health behaviors based on the CPPS and HPLP-II scales.
• Investigate the mediating role of life satisfaction between career planning and health outcomes based on the SWLS scale.
• Examine demographic differences in career and health metrics among nursing, pharmacy, and clinical medical students.
• Validate qualitative findings on the importance of information gathering and social support in career development.

Strengths

• Includes 3,335 survey responses, providing a substantial sample size.
• Covers students from 34 universities across 14 provinces in China, suggesting geographic diversity.
• Uses established psychometric scales (SWLS, CPPS, HPLP-II) for measurement.
• Employs a mixed-methods design, combining quantitative survey data with qualitative interview insights.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count for the underlying tabular data is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic and institutional bias inherent to the selected universities in China.

Provenance

Source

Yuanlong Huang via figshare.

Collection Method

Cross-sectional survey and semi-structured interviews.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-28 04:48:36; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Universities in Eastern, Central, and Western China.