General Practitioners’ intention to prescribe and prescribing patterns in selected European settings: The OTCSOCIOMED project

•We explore GPs’ prescribing intentions and habits in seven European countries.•GPs’ prescribing patterns differ greatly across European regions.•GPs from Cyprus, Greece, and Turkey appear to have common prescribing habits.•Irrational prescribing phenomena appear, to differing extent, in all countries.•GPs’ intention is influenced by attitude and PBC in the CZ and by SN in Malta.