Trial reportAnnals of family medicine
Two techniques to make swallowing pills easier.
Trial report in Annals of family medicine. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05173051 (Medication Intake of Solid Dosage Forms), which is not on this map. Cited by 14 papers.
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Medication Intake of Solid Dosage Forms: A Risk Factor for Patients With Stroke-induced Dysphagia?
Who cites it
14 citing papers in PubMed.
- Oral bioavailability of microdoses and therapeutic doses of midazolam as a 2-dimensionally printed orodispersible film in healthy volunteers.European journal of clinical pharmacology · 2022Trial
- Application of a screening tool to understand the medication habits of patients with swallowing difficulty: a prospective observational study.International journal of clinical pharmacy · 2025Observational
- Experiences, acceptability and barriers to calcium supplementation during pregnancy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.Maternal & child nutrition · 2025Article
- Influence of Solid Oral Dosage Form Characteristics on Swallowability, Visual Perception, and Handling in Older Adults.Pharmaceutics · 2023Article
- Identifying and addressing pill aversion in adults without physiological-related dysphagia: A narrative review.British journal of clinical pharmacology · 2022Review
- Solid Oral Dosage Forms Use in Adults with Neurological Disorders and Swallowing Difficulties: A Scoping Review.Dysphagia · 2022Article
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- A Difficult Pill to Swallow: An Investigation of the Factors Associated with Medication Swallowing Difficulties.Patient preference and adherence · 2021Article
- Better Medicines for Older Patients: Considerations between Patient Characteristics and Solid Oral Dosage Form Designs to Improve Swallowing Experience.Pharmaceutics · 2020Review
- A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down? A review of strategies for making pills easier to swallow.Patient preference and adherence · 2018Review
- Effects of chin-up posture on the sequence of swallowing events.Head & neck · 2017Article
- Swallowing difficulties with medication intake assessed with a novel self-report questionnaire in patients with systemic sclerosis - a cross-sectional population study.Patient preference and adherence · 2017Article
- Medication adherence in patients with myotonic dystrophy and facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy.Journal of neurology · 2016Article
- Formulation approaches to pediatric oral drug delivery: benefits and limitations of current platforms.Expert opinion on drug delivery · 2015Review
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Abstract
To evaluate whether 2 techniques (the pop-bottle method for tablets and the lean-forward technique for capsules) ease swallowing of tablets and capsules, we conducted a cross-sectional study including 151 adults of the general German population. Participants swallowed 16 differently shaped placebos, rated their ease of swallowing on an 8-point Likert scale, and swallowed the 2 dosage forms that they had rated most difficult again using the appropriate technique. The pop-bottle method substantially improved swallowing of tablets in 59.7% (169/283) and the lean-forward technique for capsules in 88.6% (31/35). Both techniques were remarkably effective in participants with and without reported difficulties swallowing pills and should be recommended regularly.
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