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Simplification of pharmaceutical pictograms to improve visual acuity

Information Design Journal, 2021
Abstract The purpose of pharmaceutical pictograms is to help patients manage their medicinal treatment. However, the pictograms often lack perceptual clarity. While they are frequently tested for aspects such as comprehension, little attention has been paid to their legibility.
Pia Pedersen, Chiron Oderkerk, Sofie Beier   +2 more
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The evaluation of pharmaceutical pictograms in a low-literate South African population

Patient Education and Counseling, 2001
An inability to read and understand written medication instructions may be a major contributory factor to non-compliance in certain patient populations, particularly in countries with a high illiteracy rate such as South Africa. Twenty three pictograms from the USP-DI and a corresponding set of 23 locally developed, culturally sensitive pictograms for ...
Ros Dowse
exaly   +3 more sources

Comprehension by older people of medication information with or without supplementary pharmaceutical pictograms

Applied Ergonomics, 2017
This study examined the benefits of pharmaceutical pictograms for improving comprehension of medication information for older people. Fifty Hong Kong Chinese older people completed a medical information comprehension task for five drugs. Participants in the control group were presented with text labels while those in the experimental group were given ...
Annie W Y Ng, Alan H S Chan
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Comprehensibility of pharmaceutical pictograms: Effect of prospective-user factors and cognitive sign design features

Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy, 2021
The people's comprehensibility regarding the meaning of internationally recommended pictograms is an important factor in the correct usage of medications.To investigate the relationship between the guessability of the pharmaceutical pictograms, the cognitive sign features, and prospective-user factors.A total of 351 Iranian people participated in this ...
Hajiomid Kalteh, Alireza Mortezapour, Mojtaba Ahmadi   +2 more
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Effects of prospective-user factors and sign design features on guessability of pharmaceutical pictograms

Patient Education and Counseling, 2013
To examine the associations between the guessing performance of 25 pharmaceutical pictograms and five sign features for naïve participants. The effect of prospective-user factors on guessing performance was also investigated.A total of 160 Hong Kong Chinese people, drawn largely from a young student population, guessed the meanings of 25 pharmaceutical
Alan H S Chan, Ken W L Chan
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Users’ Interpretation of Pictograms and Pictures for Conveying Instructions and Warnings on Pharmaceutical Labels

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2019
Pharmaceutical pictograms are figures that provide a visual representation of medication instructions and warnings. Pictograms were created in order to lower the continuously rising problem of poor medication adherence due to patients misunderstanding what is being instructed on medication labels.
Vu Kim-Phuong L, Sanchez Jaime
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Pharmaceutical pictograms to improve textual comprehension: A systematic review

Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy
Written instructive information for the patient is key in pharmaceutical care. However, the preexisting literature agrees on the discordance between the readability of written medication messages intended for patients. The aim of our work was to systematically review the available evidence on the effect of pharmaceutical pictograms as elements that ...
Yasmin Curá, FRANCISCO Javier Ferreira Alfaya   +1 more
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Interpretation of Pharmaceutical Pictograms by Pharmacy and Non-Pharmacy University Students

Pharmacology & Pharmacy, 2014
Background: The present study was undertaken to evaluate the correct interpretation by university students of internationally available pictograms and to assess the ability of the pictograms to convey the intended messages. Aim: To compare the ability of pharmacy and non-pharmacy students to comprehend pharmaceutical pictograms.
Suleiman Ibrahim Sharif, Manar Abdulla, Amal Yousif, Duaa Mohamed   +3 more
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The Comprehensibility and Legibility of Twenty Pharmaceutical Warning Pictograms

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 1995
The purpose of the reported three phase study was to test the comprehensibility and legibility of twenty prescription warning labels that were likely to have adverse effects if taken incorrectly and to redesign those that were poorly understood. The underlying message or warning did not achieve an eighty-five percent comprehension level in sixteen of ...
E. L. Ringseis, J. K. Caird
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Pharmaceutical pictograms in supporting health literacy

Ros Dowse
exaly   +2 more sources