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ArticleThe Canadian journal of hospital pharmacy

Recall of Pharmaceutical Pictograms by Older Adults.

Régis Vaillancourt, Cindy N Giby, Bradley P Murphy, Annie Pouliot, Anne Trinneer

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Article in The Canadian journal of hospital pharmacy. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Régis Vaillancourt, OMM, CD, BPharm, PharmD, FCSHP, is with the Department of Pharmacy, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Ontario.
Cindy N Giby, PharmD, is with Shoppers Drug Mart, Ottawa, Ontario.
Bradley P Murphy, BSc, PharmD, was, at the time this study was conducted, a student at the University of Waterloo, School of Pharmacy. He is now with the Department of Pharmacy, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Ontario.
Annie Pouliot, PhD, was, at the time this study was conducted, with the Department of Pharmacy, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Ontario.
Anne Trinneer, MA, is with the Department of Pharmacy, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Ontario.
Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario · CAUniversity of Waterloo · CA

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundLow health literacy and high medication burden in the older adult population are contributing factors to the misunderstanding of medication instructions, leading to an increased risk of poor adherence and adverse events in this group of patients.

objectiveTo evaluate the ability of older adults to recall the meaning of 13 pharmaceutical pictograms 4 weeks after receipt of feedback on pictogram meaning.

methodsOlder adults (aged 65 or older) were recruited from one community pharmacy in Canada. One-on-one structured interviews were conducted to assess the comprehensibility of 13 pharmaceutical pictograms from the International Pharmaceutical Federation's database of pictograms. Each participant was then told the meaning of each pictogram. Recall was assessed 4 weeks later.

resultsA total of 58 participants met the inclusion criteria and agreed to participate. The number of pictograms meeting the ISO threshold for comprehensibility of symbols increased from 10 at the initial comprehensibility assessment to 13 at the recall assessment. Analysis of demographic data showed no associations between initial comprehensibility of the pictograms and age, sex, education level, or number of medications taken.

conclusionsThe results of this study indicate that after being informed of the meaning of pharmaceutical pictograms, older adults were able to recall the pictogram meanings for at least 4 weeks.

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and comprehensibilityolder adultspharmaceutical pictogramsrecall

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PMID31853145
PMCPMC6910848
OpenAlexW2994927246

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