Data related to the study on patients perception of medication side effect descriptions in medication package inserts

The data set is for the 750 patients who purchased medicines from five selected pharmacies in Ibadan metropolis. These patients were divided into three groups based on the questionnaire variant they were administered. The three questionnaire variants were A - for participants who answered questions relating to the use of verbal descriptor in describing the risk of occurrence of medication side effects, B - for participants who responded to questions regarding the use of percentage descriptor in describing the risk of occurrence of medication side effects, and C - for participants who answered questions relating to the use of natural frequency descriptor in describing the risk of occurrence of medication side effects,