Factors that Facilitate and Hinder the Comprehension of Patient Information Leaflets (PILs): A Brief Scoping Review
| Autor: | Andrés M. Pérez-Acosta, Sara Cadavid, Valentina Amaya-Giraldo, Mariana Medina-Córdoba |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Mini Review media_common.quotation_subject Population RM1-950 Affect (psychology) Reading (process) Health care Pharmacology (medical) patient information leaflet (PIL) education media_common Pharmacology education.field_of_study Medical education business.industry drug labeling Cognition medicine package insert drug package insert Readability Comprehension Identified patient self medication readability Therapeutics. Pharmacology business Psychology comprehension |
| Zdroj: | Frontiers in Pharmacology, Vol 12 (2021) UnpayWall ORCID Microsoft Academic Graph DOAJ-Articles PubMed Central Frontiers in Pharmacology |
| ISSN: | 1663-9812 |
| DOI: | 10.3389/fphar.2021.740334/full |
| Popis: | Introduction: Patient information leaflets (PILs) of medicinal products are informative documents that accompany medicines and explain their components, modes of use, interactions with other medicines, and other relevant issues. When patients do not adequately understand the information in the leaflets, they may engage in behaviors that affect their health (e.g., self-medication).Objective: To identify patient-related factors and characteristics of PILs that can promote cognitive, emotional, and behavioral changes that lead to appropriate drug use practices. Additionally, we aimed to determine strategies that could be implemented to design leaflets that convey adequate information and are easier to understand.Method and Results: We evaluated scientific articles published in databases and containing information on PILs suitability to be used in a patient population. A total of 51 articles were selected as the sample. Certain leaflet factors that favored or hindered understanding were identified (e.g., format in which the leaflets are presented, their structure, their adaptation to the sociodemographic and linguistic characteristics of the population, their wording…). Similarly, we also identified patient factors, such as previous experience taking the drugs referred to in the leaflet; the type of emotions experienced when reading the leaflets; the emphasis on the adverse effects of the medications; sociodemographic variables (i.e., age or educational level); and degree of interest in their own healthcare.Conclusion: Patient and leaflet factors influence the comprehension of information in the PIL; hence, emphasis should be placed on these factors to increase treatment and medication adherence and to reduce health-risk behaviors. |
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