- Title
- Written medicines information for South African HIV/AIDS patients: does it enhance understanding of co-trimoxazole therapy?
- Creator
- Mansoor, Leila E, Dowse, Roslind
- Date
- 2007
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156860
- Identifier
- vital:40059
- Identifier
- https://0-doi.org.wam.seals.ac.za/10.1093/her/cyl039
- Description
- Written information to promote patient education is being increasingly recognized as an integral part of quality health care. The main objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of distributing a patient information leaflet (PIL) on knowledge acquisition and recall. Two different PILs were designed for co-trimoxazole tablets: a simple, shorter PIL that incorporated pictograms and text and a text-only PIL that was longer and more complex. Human immunodeficiency virus-positive participants on chronic co-trimoxazole therapy were enrolled from five local primary health care clinics in Grahamstown, South Africa, and were randomly allocated to a Control Group (no PIL), Group A (text-only PIL) or Group B (simple PIL with pictograms).
- Format
- 12 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Health education research, Mansoor, L. and Dowse, R., 2007. Written medicines information for South African HIV/AIDS patients: does it enhance understanding of co-trimoxazole therapy?. Health education research, 22(1), pp.37-48, Health education research volume 22 number 1 37 48 February 2007 1465-3648
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Dowse, Ros (Emeritus Assoc Prof)
RU Department of Pharmacy
SDG 04. Quality Education
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