Set of data on consumers' perceived safety and efficacy towards natural health products to control or cure Covid-19 viruses in Malaysia

Abstract

This study evaluated the level of knowledge of effects, knowledge of safe use, information complexity of natural health products and consumers' perceived safety and efficacy toward natural health products used to control or cure Covid-19 viruses in Malaysia. The validated questionnaires were used to survey randomly selected stakeholders in Malaysia, who were asked to participate voluntarily in an online survey from 1st September 2020 to 31st December 2020. 723 respondents of adults above 18 years old returned completed questionnaires. The survey used for data collection consisted of 5 questions on knowledge of effects, 4 questions on knowledge for safe-use, 9 questions on perception towards safety and efficacy and 4 questions on the information complexity of natural health products. Besides that, 8 questions are being asked on the demography of respondents at the very end of the survey. The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 26 was used to analyse the data. The mean score, correlation and regression values were the focus of this study. The findings provide various opportunities to investigate Malaysian consumers’ perceptions which facilitates the development of regulation and strategic plans related to health, and encourage additional research by other researchers interested in the measures and data given.

Keywords

• Perceived safety and efficacy
• Safe-use
• Natural health product
• COVID-19
• Malaysia