Patient counseling materials: The effect of patient health literacy on the comprehension of printed prescription drug information
| Autor: | Tom Donnelly, John Ewing, Daniel Ryan, Sherry Fox, Michelle Blechman, Lynn Ricker, Karen Tibbals, Heather Ashley-Collins, Heather Turkoz, Will Leopold, Scott von Lutcken, Jim Kirk, William Stone, Jeffrey Adler, Amit Patel, Daria Bakina, Donna Wray |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Prescription drug Package insert Teaching Materials media_common.quotation_subject Population Pharmaceutical Science Health literacy Pharmacy Disease 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology Literacy 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Patient Education as Topic medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine education Drug Labeling media_common education.field_of_study business.industry Health Literacy Comprehension Family medicine Cohort business |
| Zdroj: | Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy. 14:851-862 |
| ISSN: | 1551-7411 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.sapharm.2018.04.035 |
| Popis: | Background Counseling patients with written materials relies equally on patients' health literacy to understand their disease and its treatment, and the written materials' effectiveness communicating clearly in accessible and actionable ways. Only about 12% of the US population is adequately health literate. Objectives To explore the impact of reducing the health literacy demands of written patient health information. Methods 805 patients were screened for health literacy, and recruited for balanced cohorts of adequate and low literacy, and high and normal blood pressure. Half of each patient cohort received either standard or “health literacy-friendly” drug summaries (i.e. Patient Package Inserts, or PPIs or “leaflets”) along with a standardized health literacy assessment scale. Results The literacy-friendly drug summary improved comprehension of drug-related information overall from 50% to 71% correct responses. Adequate literacy patients improved from 58% correct to 90%, while lower literacy patients improved from 42% to 52% correct in response to the health literacy-friendly PPIs. Conclusions Health literacy demands require special attention in developing and using written drug summary materials. Additionally, pharmacists should be provided additional information and counseling support materials to facilitate communications with low health literacy level patients. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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