Survey of Chinese Family Caregivers' Willingness to Use Online Psychotherapy

A survey of 291 family caregivers of individuals with mental illness in China, assessing their willingness to support online psychotherapy. The dataset includes caregiver demographics, technology access, patient characteristics, and attitudes toward online therapy, including willingness scores, treatment preferences, and perceived benefits and barriers. The data was collected via a structured questionnaire in psychiatric settings across multiple Chinese cities and is licensed under CC-BY-4.0.

Use Cases

• Predicting caregiver willingness to adopt online therapy based on demographic and contextual factors mentioned in the description.
• Analyzing preferred delivery formats and acceptable session fees for online psychotherapy programs.
• Identifying perceived benefits and barriers to digital mental health interventions from a caregiver perspective.

Strengths

• Includes responses from 291 participants, providing a substantive sample size.
• Contains specific quantitative results, such as a mean willingness score of 70.2 and regression coefficients for predictors like small-city residence.
• Survey instrument assessed multiple dimensions, including technology access, treatment preferences, and perceived barriers.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic and institutional bias inherent to recruitment from psychiatric settings in multiple Chinese cities.

Provenance

Source

Author Qianqian Li, published on figshare.

Collection Method

Data gathered via a structured questionnaire administered to family caregivers recruited in psychiatric settings.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-03 06:00:29; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Multiple cities in China.