Survey of German GPs on Social Prescribing Awareness and Perspectives

Supplementary file 4 contains a cross-sectional survey of 101 German general practitioners exploring their awareness and perspectives on social prescribing. The study was authored by Dora E. Haxhija and last updated on 2026-05-13. It analyzes GPs' familiarity, perceived effectiveness, willingness to adopt, and barriers to implementing social prescribing.

Use Cases

• Analyze GP awareness and adoption willingness of social prescribing based on survey responses.
• Identify perceived barriers to implementation, such as lack of time or referral knowledge, based on survey findings.
• Compare attitudes towards social prescribing between GPs in towns under 5,000 population and the broader sample.
• Study the types of social issues GPs encounter, such as mental strain or loneliness, that could be addressed by social prescribing.

Strengths

• Survey includes responses from 101 German general practitioners.
• Data is openly available under a CC-BY-4.0 license.
• Analysis includes descriptive and inferential statistics on GP perspectives.

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 23.4 KB, indicating limited scope.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Cross-sectional survey analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-13 05:34:23; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Germany