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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
medicine
Medicine labels incorporating pictograms: Do they influence understanding and adherence?
Patient Education and Counseling, Volume 58, No. 1, Year 2005
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Description
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. © 2004 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
Authors & Co-Authors
Dowse, Ros
South Africa, Grahamstown
Rhodes University
Ehlers, Martina Sabrina
South Africa, Grahamstown
Rhodes University
Statistics
Citations: 265
Authors: 2
Affiliations: 1
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1016/j.pec.2004.06.012
ISSN:
07383991
Research Areas
Health System And Policy
Study Design
Randomised Control Trial
Cohort Study