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Evaluation of pharmaceutical pictogram comprehension among adults in the Philippines
Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice, 2022 Background The use of pharmaceutical pictograms to enhance patients’ understanding of drug regimens has been proven effective in many countries. There are two reference systems for pictograms generally used in pharmacy: the United States Pharmacopeia ...
Margarita M. Gutierrez +2 more
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Behavioral Sciences, 2023 Overall, pharmaceutical pictograms seem to improve medication adherence. However, little is known about how warning pictograms (e.g., “do not drive after taking”) on medication packages influence patients’ information-seeking strategies such as ...
Ester Reijnen +3 more
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Media and Communication, 2023 Answering the strong need for insight into how minors can effectively be informed about advertising (e.g., influencer marketing) in online content, we ran an online experiment (N = 623 minors between 8 and 18 years old) testing the effects of two ...
Sophie C. Boerman +2 more
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Evaluation of the patients’ satisfaction on pharmaceutical pictogram provided in a Polish community pharmacy – pilot study [PDF]
Farmacja Polska, 2020 Background: Pharmaceutical pictograms are useful tools aimed to improve patients’ understanding of medical information. They can be easily implemented into routine settings and can embrace various information, among others, about drug regimen, drug ...
Adrianna Narożny +5 more
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Using Pictograms for Communication [PDF]
Military Medicine, 2012 The U.S. Navy sponsors annual Pacific Partnership deployments to provide humanitarian and disaster relief training for the U.S. military, partner nations, nongovernmental organizations, and host nations. Communication between these groups and the local populations receiving medical care is problematic in that sufficient numbers of capable translators ...
Clawson, T H +3 more
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Pictograms to aid laypeople in identifying the addictiveness of gambling products (PictoGRRed study)
Scientific Reports, 2022 The structural addictive characteristics of gambling products are important targets for prevention, but can be unintuitive to laypeople. In the PictoGRRed (Pictograms for Gambling Risk Reduction) study, we aimed to develop pictograms that illustrate the ...
Amandine Luquiens +36 more
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International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, 1998 AbstractThis review examines the use of pictograms in health care. Well designed pictograms are simple, clear, graphic symbols able to convey their intended meaning to all patients, including those who are illiterate, elderly or visually impaired. Although some research on the effectiveness of pictograms has not supported the hypothesis that pictograms
Dowse, Roslind, Ehlers, Martina S
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Journal of Research in Medical Sciences, 2017 Background: Conveying information to patients on how to use medications at the dispensing sessions and retention of this information by the patients is essential to the good pharmaceutical care.
Amir H Zargarzadeh, Sahar Ahmadi
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Journal of Research in Medical Sciences, 2017 Background: Good understanding of medication instructions is paramount to a good pharmaceutical care. The aim of our study was to examine the understandability of the selected three most applicable pictograms by participants and their recall after ...
Amir H Zargarzadeh, Sahar Ahamdi
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The evolution of the elevator pictogram [PDF]
Information Design Journal, 2022 AbstractThis study draws attention to the challenging perception of two public information pictograms, ‘elevator’ and ‘toilet’. Both indicate the location of a destination. Although the semantic information is completely different, both pictograms partly depict the same: front view of standing human figures.
Sibylle Schlaich, Anita Meier-Walter
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