Sata, T., Ishida, K., Motoya, T., Nakano, R., Honda, K., Nakao, S., et al. (2003). Usefulness of drug information leaflets with pictures to improve understanding by elderly patients of their medicines. Journal of Applied Therapeutic Research, 4(2), 40-45.
Sata, T.; Ishida, K.; Motoya, T.; Nakano, R.; Honda, K.; Nakao, S.; et al.
2003
Sata, T., Ishida, K., Motoya, T., Nakano, R., Honda, K., Nakao, S., et al. (2003). Usefulness of drug information leaflets with pictures to improve understanding by elderly patients of their medicines. Journal of Applied Therapeutic Research, 4(2), 40-45.
The usefulness of drug information leaflets with pictures for elderly patient education to facilitate understanding of their medicines was examined. Sixty inpatients, more than 65 years old, were divided into three groups of 20 patients each. Each group was provided drug information such as trade name, efficacy, administration procedure and cautions for use by one of the following three procedures: i) oral explanation; ii) oral explanation and provision of information written on the package; iii) oral explanation and provision of an information leaflet with pictures. Understanding by patients of their medicines was assessed by an interview with a pharmacist. The patients given drug information leaflets with pictures received significantly (p<0.05) higher understanding scores in all of the information items examined than those in the other groups. After withdrawal of education for 6 months, the patients who had kept the leaflet showed significantly (p<0.05) higher understanding scores than those who had lost it. The score in the latter patient group after the beginning of the second period of education, however, improved faster than that after the first. These results indicate that the use of drug information leaflets with pictures is an effective way to improve the understanding by elderly patients of their medicines.
These results indicate that the use of drug information leaflets with pictures is an effective way to improve the understanding by elderly patients of their medicines.
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