Specifications table

Subject area	Medicine
More specific subject area	Health Services Research
Type of data	Table, link
How data was acquired	Survey using the German Stendal Adherence to Medication Score (SAMS). Data from 429 patients with neurological disorders were collected (consecutive sampling) either during their visit to the outpatient clinic or during their stay on the neurological ward in the Department of Neurology at the Jena University Hospital.
Data format	Raw
Experimental factors	The criteria used for including patients in the study and how data were collected has been described in Prell et al., in press. (1)
Experimental features	Stendal adherence to medication questionnaire (SAMS) and demographical data were collected in patients with neurological disorders. Principal component analysis with Varimax rotation was used to determine independent factors explaining non-adherence to medication in these subjects.
Data source location	Department of Neurology, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany
Data accessibility	Mendeley Data – direct URL: https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/ny2krr3vgg/1 https://doi.org/10.17632/ny2krr3vgg.1
Related research article	Tino Prell, Julian Grosskreutz, Sarah Mendorf, Gabriele Helga Franke, Otto W. Witte, Albrecht Kunze. Clusters of non-adherence to medication in neurological patients. Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sapharm.2019.01.001, in press [1]