Medical Students' Research Barriers Survey in Yemen, 2025

1,387 medical students from ten universities in Yemen participated in a cross-sectional survey between April and July 2025. The data assesses research knowledge, attitudes, participation, and perceived barriers, revealing a mean research knowledge score of 2.8 out of 10. Mohamed Baklola authored this dataset, which is licensed under CC-BY-4.0.

Use Cases

• Analyze the relationship between academic performance and research attitudes based on the reported significant predictor.
• Identify the most common structural barriers to student research based on reported frequencies like insufficient training (81.0%).
• Compare research knowledge scores across different academic years based on the finding that fifth-year students demonstrated the highest scores.
• Study gender differences in research engagement based on the reported 70.7% male participation and no significant knowledge difference by gender.

Strengths

• Includes survey responses from 1,387 participants, providing a substantial sample size.
• Data collection is clearly defined as occurring between April and July 2025.
• Specific statistical results are reported, such as a mean knowledge score of 2.8/10 and barrier percentages (e.g., 81.0% cited insufficient training).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for certain analyses.
• The dataset is very small at 5.5 KB, indicating limited scope or highly summarized data.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Cross-sectional survey using a structured online questionnaire administered to undergraduate medical students.

Time Range

Data collected between April and July 2025.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-29 17:41:58; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Multi-institutional setting in Yemen (ten universities).