The use of medication and food supplements I, January

21.12137/FWK4RVButkevičienė, EglėEglėButkevičienė0000-0002-5631-360XInstitute of Policy and Public Administration, Faculty of Social Sciences, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania [Project Leader]Balžekienė, AistėAistėBalžekienė0000-0001-8557-0544Institute of Policy and Public Administration, Faculty of Social Sciences, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania [Project Member]Bartuškaitė, MiglėMiglėBartuškaitėInstitute of Policy and Public Administration, Faculty of Social Sciences, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania [Project Member]Morkevičius, VaidasVaidasMorkevičius0000-0002-2174-0396Institute of Policy and Public Administration, Faculty of Social Sciences, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania [Project Member]Ražanauskaitė, JustinaJustinaRažanauskaitėInstitute of Policy and Public Administration, Faculty of Social Sciences, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania [Project Member]Šarkutė, LigitaLigitaŠarkutė0000-0002-1835-0186Institute of Policy and Public Administration, Faculty of Social Sciences, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania [Project Member; Data curation]Telešienė, AudronėAudronėTelešienė0000-0003-0356-1631Institute of Policy and Public Administration, Faculty of Social Sciences, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania [Project Member]Žvaliauskas, GiedriusGiedriusŽvaliauskas0000-0001-8970-0756Institute of Policy and Public Administration, Faculty of Social Sciences, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania [Project Member; Data curation]The use of medication and food supplements I, January - February 2013Lithuanian Data Archive for SSH (LiDA)2022Social Sciencesmedicinal drugsnon-prescription drugsprescription drugsdrug therapymedical dietsMedication and treatmentCenter for Data Analysis and Archiving (DAtA)Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology, LithuaniaVilčinskas, 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])Lithuanian Data Archive for Social Sciences and HumanitiesCenter for Data Analysis and Archiving (DAtA), Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania2017-09-282013-02-052013-05-072025-03-112013-01-12/2013-02-05Survey dataLiDA_SurveyData_046019922840829787675133045451954application/gziptext/tab-separated-valuesapplication/gzipapplication/pdfapplication/pdf2.2The purpose of the study: to ascertain Lithuanian residents opinion about usage of medicines and supplements. Major investigated questions: 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. Socio-demographic characteristics: 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.SPSS, 25Dataverse collection “Public Health” contains surveys studying Lithuanian public opinion on health issues, lifestyles and behaviors that have an impact on public health. The main language of the study is Lithuanian (lit). Standardized questionnaire was provided for the respondents in Lithuanian (lit). Dataset (data and metadata) “The use of medication and food supplements I, January - February 2013” from 2017-09-28 to 2021-10-01 was available on the portal of Lithuanian Data Archive for Humanities and Social Sciences (LiDA) www.lidata.eu; object PID: www.lidata.eu/data/quant/LiDA_VS_0302; produced by Žvaliauskas Giedrius 2017-09-28. Vilnius, LithuaniaResearch Council of Lithuania (National Research Programme “Social Challenges to National Security”)SIN-07/12