The use of medication and food supplements I, January - February 2013https://hdl.handle.net/21.12137/FWK4RVButkevičienė, EglėBalžekienė, AistėBartuškaitė, MiglėMorkevičius, VaidasRažanauskaitė, JustinaŠarkutė, LigitaTelešienė, AudronėŽvaliauskas, GiedriusLithuanian Data Archive for SSH (LiDA)2022-03-012025-08-21T06:04:17Z<b><i>The purpose of the study</i></b>: to ascertain Lithuanian residents opinion about usage of medicines and supplements. <br> <b><i>Major investigated questions</i></b>: respondents were asked if they often used prescription, non-prescription medicines and food supplements in the last 12 months. Those respondents who used supplements were asked what usually determines their decision to use supplements. Further, all respondents were asked to imagine that they suddenly got fever and answer what is the first thing that they would do. Respondents who would not contact a doctor were asked what would make them choose non-prescription medicine. Questions about effect, benefit to health, etc. of supplements were asked. Also, a few questions about medicines were asked: if only doctor's prescribed medicines should be used, if pharmaceutical companies promotes usage of medicines and other products to make profit. At the end of the survey, groups of questions in order to find out respondents opinion about how much of a benefit and a risk is listed medicines or supplements on human health was asked. <br> <b><i>Socio-demographic characteristics</i></b>: gender, age, duration of education, education, employment status of the respondent and his / her husband / wife / permanent partner, profession (occupation), respondent's trade union membership, religion, participation in religious rites, political views, political and social activism, voting in the last Seimas elections, nationality, household size, respondent's average and total average monthly household income, marital status, place of residence, satisfaction with quality of life, change in living conditions, received social benefits, received financial support from abroad living relatives.Social Sciencesmedicinal drugsnon-prescription drugsprescription drugsdrug therapymedical dietsEnglishLithuanian2013-02-05Butkevičienė, Eglė (Institute of Policy and Public Administration, Faculty of Social Sciences, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania [ORCID: 0000-0002-5631-360X])Vilčinskas, Vidas (Center for Data Analysis and Archiving (DAtA), Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania [ORCID: 0000-0001-9377-0458])Burbienė, Diana (Center for Data Analysis and Archiving (DAtA), Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania [ORCID: 0000-0002-8435-090X])2013-05-072013-01-122013-02-052013-01-122013-02-05<p><a href="https://hdl.handle.net/21.12137/HZU8KU" target="_blank"> The use of medication and food supplements II, October - November 2013</a></p> <p>Datasets of which data collection was conducted at the same time as of the study "The use of medication and food supplements I, January - February 2013" were carried out simultaneously: </p> <p><a href="https://hdl.handle.net/21.12137/TW2B48" target="_blank"> ISSP 2012: Family and Changing Gender Roles IV, Lithuania, January - February 2013<p><a href="https://hdl.handle.net/21.12137/WD751F" target="_blank"> Societal Wellbeing I, January - February 2013</a></p> <p><a href="https://hdl.handle.net/21.12137/4BNIN7" target="_blank"> Social Policy III, January - February 2013<p><a href="" target="_blank"> </a></p> <p><a href="https://hdl.handle.net/21.12137/SQGRO3" target="_blank"> Virtual Social Networks III, January - February 2013<p><a href="" target="_blank"> </a></p>Survey dataLithuania<p>Duomenys yra prieinami LiDA Dataverse talpyklos vartotojams pagal <a href="https://cc.lnb.lt/cc-by-sa" target="_blank">„Creative Commons“ 4.0 priskyrimo ir analogiško platinimo tarptautinės viešosios licencijos (CC BY-SA 4.0)</a> sąlygas, jei nenumatyta kitaip. 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