Medicine labels incorporating pictograms: do they influence understanding and adherence?

被引：163
作者：
Dowse, R [1 ]
Ehlers, M [1 ]
机构：
[1] Rhodes Univ, Fac Pharm, ZA-6140 Grahamstown, South Africa
来源：
PATIENT EDUCATION AND COUNSELING | 2005年 / 58卷 / 01期
关键词：
medicine labels; pictograms; adherence; low literacy; understanding of instructions;
D O I：
10.1016/j.pec.2004.06.012
中图分类号：
R1 [预防医学、卫生学];
学科分类号：
1004 ; 120402 ;
摘要：
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. (c) 2004 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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页码：63 / 70
页数：8
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