کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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9302150 | 1246265 | 2005 | 8 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Medicine labels incorporating pictograms: do they influence understanding and adherence?
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موضوعات مرتبط
علوم پزشکی و سلامت
پزشکی و دندانپزشکی
پزشکی و دندانپزشکی (عمومی)
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چکیده انگلیسی
The objective was to determine the influence of medicine labels incorporating pictograms on the understanding of instructions and on adherence. Eighty-seven Xhosa participants attending an outpatient clinic who had been prescribed a short course of antibiotics were randomly allocated to either a control group (41 participants given text-only labels), or an experimental group (46 participants given text + pictogram labels). All participants had a maximum of 10 years of formal schooling. Follow-up home visits were conducted after 3-5 days to assess understanding of instructions and to evaluate adherence. A high adherence of greater than 90% was found for 54% of the experimental group, compared with only 2% of the control group. Average percentages for understanding in the control and experimental groups were 70 and 95%, respectively, and average adherence was 72 and 90%, respectively. The presence of pictograms was found to contribute positively to both understanding of instructions and adherence.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Patient Education and Counseling - Volume 58, Issue 1, July 2005, Pages 63-70
Journal: Patient Education and Counseling - Volume 58, Issue 1, July 2005, Pages 63-70
نویسندگان
Ros Dowse, Martina Ehlers,