German General Practitioner Survey on Social Prescribing Awareness and Perspectives

A 2026 cross-sectional survey of 101 German general practitioners (GPs) explores their familiarity with and perspectives on social prescribing. The study, authored by Dora E. Haxhija and shared under a CC-BY-4.0 license, analyzes GPs' awareness, perceived effectiveness, willingness to adopt, and barriers to implementing social prescribing. It finds most GPs were unfamiliar with the term but supportive of the concept.

Use Cases

• Analyze barriers to implementing social prescribing based on reported lack of time and knowledge about referral structures.
• Study the relationship between practice location and willingness to adopt social prescribing based on findings from GPs in towns under 5,000 population.
• Assess general practitioner awareness and pre-existing engagement with social prescribing activities as described in the survey results.
• Model potential impacts of social prescribing on healthcare system strain based on GP perceptions of its benefits for patient care.

Strengths

• Includes survey results from 101 completed questionnaires, providing a quantitative basis for analysis.
• Focuses on a specific and understudied context: social prescribing awareness among German GPs.
• Explicitly licensed as CC-BY-4.0, allowing for broad reuse and sharing.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is very small at 23.3 KB, indicating limited scope and likely consisting of a single document.

Provenance

Source

Dora E. Haxhija via figshare

Collection Method

Cross-sectional survey analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-13 05:34:20; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Germany