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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, Sofie Beier, Chiron Oderkerk   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Pharmaceutical pictograms: A model for development and testing for comprehension and utility

Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy, 2013
With concerns about the medication literacy skills of patients comes the need to develop various types of information materials that will enhance understanding and drug use.To review pictogram development projects and to propose a model for pharmaceutical pictogram development and testing for comprehension and use.Previous efforts in developing ...
Michael Montagne
exaly   +3 more sources

Validation of pharmaceutical pictograms among older adults with limited English proficiency

Patient Education and Counseling, 2022
Pictograms on prescription medication labels enhance medication literacy and medication adherence. However, pictograms need to be contextually validated. We assessed the validity of 52 International Pharmaceutical Federation pictograms among 250 older Singaporeans with limited English proficiency.Participants were randomly assigned 11 pictograms each ...
Choon Huat Gerald Koh, Yi Wen Tan, Regis Vaillancourt   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

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, Jamshid Yazdani Charati   +2 more
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
exaly   +3 more sources

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
exaly   +5 more sources

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
exaly   +3 more sources

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.
Kim-Phuong Vu
exaly   +3 more sources

Evaluating attitudes of pharmacy students toward pharmaceutical side effect pictograms: Ankara sample [PDF]

European Journal of Life Sciences
Pictograms are graphic symbols that facilitate international communications and express objects and the meaning of these objects. Using pictograms in health is essential to informing patients, especially in cases such as illiteracy, language problems, and multiple drugs.
Sevgi Şar, Nilay Tarhan, Miray Arslan, Yasenya Paşa   +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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