Medicine labels incorporating pictograms: do they influence understanding and adherence?
Medicine labels incorporating pictograms: do they influence understanding and adherence?
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DOI：
10.1016/j.pec.2004.06.012
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发表时间：
2005-07-01
影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
Ehlers, M
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作者：
Dowse, R;Ehlers, M
其目的是确定药品标签纳入象形图对说明书的理解和遵守的影响。87名参加门诊的科萨参与者被随机分配到对照组（41名参与者仅给予文本标签）或实验组（46名参与者给予文本+象形图标签）。所有参与者最多接受了10年的正规教育。3-5天后进行随访家访，以评估对说明的理解并评价依从性。实验组中有54%的患者的依从性高于90%，而对照组中只有2%。对照组和实验组的平均理解百分比分别为70%和95%，平均遵守率分别为72%和90%。象形图的存在被认为有助于积极的理解和遵守指示。(c)2004爱思唯尔爱尔兰有限公司保留所有权利。
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.