German General Practitioners Survey on Social Prescribing Awareness and Perspectives

101 completed questionnaires from German general practitioners form a cross-sectional survey exploring the integration of social prescribing into primary care. The study, authored by Dora E. Haxhija and uploaded in 2026, found most GPs were unfamiliar with the term but expressed willingness to adopt it. GPs reported encountering social issues like mental strain and loneliness, which they believed could be addressed through social prescribing.

Use Cases

• Analyze barriers to social prescribing implementation based on reported lack of time and referral knowledge
• Model GP adoption likelihood based on practice location features such as town population size
• Study correlations between GP familiarity with social prescribing and their perceived benefits for patient care

Strengths

• Survey includes 101 completed questionnaires from German general practitioners.
• Explicitly reports a 7.9% response rate for the survey.

Limitations

• Dataset size is only 27.8 KB, indicating very limited scope.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Cross-sectional survey analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-13 05:34:22; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Germany