Interpretation of Medication Pictograms by Adults in the UK

Knapp, Peter; Raynor, David K.; Jebar, Adel; Price, Sarah

doi:10.1345/aph.1e483

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“…The Fatigue Pictogram is a short and easy-to-use tool that was designed for both assessment and research with cancer patients. Because it uses figures or pictures, there can be advantages for individuals with a low scholarly level (6) , or for extremely disabled patients. This study evaluated psychometric properties of the Fatigue Pictogram in the Portuguese language.…”

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“…The Pain Faces Scale is one of the best known pictograms used to assess the symptom of pain, and it has been proven to be adequate for usage among children, adults and elders with different illnesses such as cancer or postsurgery pain (2)(3)(4)(5) . Pictograms are also used to teach patients how to self-administer medications by different means, such as insulin or vaginal creams (6)(7) .…”

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Pictograma de Fadiga: uma alternativa para avaliação da intensidade e impacto da fadiga

Mota

Pimenta

Fitch

2009

Rev. esc. enferm. USP

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O objetivo foi validar o Fatigue Pictogram para uso no Brasil. Os dados foram coletados em quatro ambulatórios de oncologia de São Paulo (SP) e na Escola de Enfermagem da USP. A amostra de conveniência envolveu 584 pacientes com câncer, 184 acompanhantes e 189 estudantes de graduação enfermagem, que responderam ao Pictograma de Fadiga, ao Inventário de Depressão de Beck (IDB) e Escala de Karnofsky (KPS). Foram feitos testes de validade e confiabilidade. O Teste-reteste mostrou que o instrumento tem boa estabilidade. O primeiro item do Pictograma de Fadiga discriminou estudantes de cuidadores de pacientes, mas não pacientes de cuidadores. O segundo item discriminou todos os grupos. Observou-se adequada validade convergente (fadiga e depressão) e divergente (fadiga e Karnofsky). O Pictograma de Fadiga é válido, confiável e fácil de usar para avaliar fadiga em câncer, mas necessita ajustes para uso em pessoas saudáveis.

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Pictograma de Fadiga: uma alternativa para avaliação da intensidade e impacto da fadiga

Mota

Pimenta

Fitch

2009

Rev. esc. enferm. USP

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“…Multiple messages can help to capture audience attention, reinforce message content, and iliustrate key health education concepts. The use of vivid imagery in health communication interventions through the use of narrative and visual illustrations can also reinforce message content, especially to audiences with limited health literacy and problems with numeracy that make it difficult for them to understand statistics and numerical risk estimates (Maibach & Parrott, 1995;Dowse & Ehlers, 2005;Hwang et al, 2005;Knapp et al, 2005). For example, the use of narratives and visual illustrations that are familiar and appealing to different audiences can often enhance attention to health promotion messages and increase the influence of these messages (Kreuter & McClure, 2004;Maibach & Parrott, 1995).…”

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Strategic use of communication to market cancer prevention and control to vulnerable populations

Kreps

2012

revistacomsoc

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There are significant challenges to communicating relevant cancer prevention and control information to health care consumers due both to the complexities of the health information to be communicated and the complexities of health communication, especially with vulnerable populations. The need for effective communication about cancer risks, early detection, prevention, care, and survivorship is particularly acute, yet also tremendously complex, for reaching vulnerable populations, those groups of people who are most likely to suffer significantly higher levels of morbidity and mortality from cancers than other segments of the population. These vulnerable populations, typically the poorest, lowest educated, and most disenfranchised members of modern society, are heir to serious cancer-related health disparities. Vulnerable populations often have health literacy difficulties, cultural barriers, and economic challenges to accessing and making sense of relevant health information. This paper examines these challenges to communicating relevant information to vulnerable populations and suggests strategies for effectively using different communication media for marketing cancer prevention and control to reduce health disparities and promote public health.

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“…8,9 Studies have shown that pictographs may be important in improving patient's comprehension of drug warning labels in persons with low literacy, and patients may prefer local, culturally sensitive pictographs.…”

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“…Therefore, a patient-centered approach to designing consumer medication information is required. 9 The primary purpose of this study was to compare lowliteracy patients with medical staff in dimensions of preference and comprehension of pictographs as a foundation for developing the most useful pictographs to improve the understanding of medical clinic ambulatory patients, especially those with low literacy. We hypothesized that there would be a gap between the pictograph choices of health care providers and the choices of low-literacy patients, so that further efforts would be necessary to produce the most comprehensible pictographs to facilitate the understanding of medication instructions by lowliteracy patients.…”

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Development of Pictographs Depicting Medication Use Instructions for Low-Literacy Medical Clinic Ambulatory Patients

Chuang

Lin²,

Wang³

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JMCP

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• 40 million Americans cannot read general consumer health information, and 90 million have difficulty understanding and acting upon this information.• Patients with poor literacy skills are often older adults, people with limited education, and those with limited native language proficiency.• Low-literacy patients are often embarrassed to ask health care professionals for help with understanding instructions, and without help they are likely to misunderstand written medication use instructions, contributing to medical errors and noncompliance.• Early work with pictographs found that patients recalled about 14% of verbal medical instructions, but correct recall improved to 85% when verbal instructions were enhanced with pictographs. What is already known about this subject Development of Pictographs Depicting Medication Use Instructions for Low-Literacy Medical Clinic Ambulatory PatientsMei-Hua Chuang, PharmD; Chin-Lon Lin, MD; Yuh-Feng Wang, MD, MS; and Thau-Ming Cham, PhD ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: One approach to help elderly and low-literacy patients understand instructions for medication use is to use pictographs or pictorial diagrams. However, most of these pictographs are designed by medical professionals and may not be optimal for such patients.

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Interpretation of Medication Pictograms by Adults in the UK

Cited by 72 publications

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Pictograma de Fadiga: uma alternativa para avaliação da intensidade e impacto da fadiga

Pictograma de Fadiga: uma alternativa para avaliação da intensidade e impacto da fadiga

Strategic use of communication to market cancer prevention and control to vulnerable populations

Development of Pictographs Depicting Medication Use Instructions for Low-Literacy Medical Clinic Ambulatory Patients

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