- Title
- Medicine labels incorporating pictograms: do they influence understanding and adherence?
- Creator
- Dowse, Roslind, Ehlers, Martina S
- Date
- 2005
- Type
- Article
- Identifier
- vital:6359
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006051
- 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.
- Format
- 13 pages
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Dowse, R. and Ehlers, M. (2005) Medicine labels incorporating pictograms: do they influence understanding and adherence? Patient Education and Counseling, 58 (1). pp. 63-70. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2004.06.012
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