A survey on perceived medication guide reading and comprehension ease among US adults.
Medication guides (MGs) provide patients with important information about certain prescription drugs to help them take these drugs safely. We surveyed US residents about their perceptions of MG readability and understandability. We randomly sampled 5204 US residents (age 18+) from Ipsos's KnowledgeP...
| Published in: | Health Promotion International Vol. 39; no. 1; pp. 1 - 15 |
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| Format: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Feb2024
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=175725579&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 175725579 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 09574824 F9Y jtl: Health Promotion International issn: 09574824 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Feb2024 vid: 39 iid: 1 pid: 622 pub: Oxford University Press / USA artinfo: ui: 175725579 175725579 175725579 10.1093/heapro/daad190 175725579 ppf: 1 ppct: 14 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P tig: atl: A survey on perceived medication guide reading and comprehension ease among US adults. aug: au: Jones, Paul R Santiago, Jonas Pearsall, Bryon M Chu, Dan-My Wolff, Carolyn Kearsley, Aaron affil: Division of Medical Policy Programs, Office of Medical Policy Initiatives, Office of Medical Policy, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) , 10903 New Hampshire Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20993 , USA sug: subj: Drugs, Prescription Drug Information Readability Language Processing Patient Satisfaction In Adulthood Patient Attitudes In Adulthood Human United States Male Female Adolescence Adult Middle Age Aged Funding Source Surveys Random Sample Analysis of Variance Educational Status Hispanic Americans African Americans Confidence Intervals Health Literacy Questionnaires T-Tests Chi Square Test Multiple Linear Regression Data Analysis Software Descriptive Statistics Age Factors Adolescent: 13-18 years Adult: 19-44 years Middle Aged: 45-64 years Aged: 65+ years Male Female ab: Medication guides (MGs) provide patients with important information about certain prescription drugs to help them take these drugs safely. We surveyed US residents about their perceptions of MG readability and understandability. We randomly sampled 5204 US residents (age 18+) from Ipsos's KnowledgePanel to complete a two-part survey. Only respondents who reported receiving an MG with their prescription drugs (n = 3852) completed part 2, which included two key items: How easy to [(1) read/ (2) understand ] are the MGs that you have received from a pharmacy along with your prescription medicines? (1 = Very easy, 5 = Very difficult ; reverse-coded). Health literacy (HL) and demographic data were also collected. After weighting our data, we found that 85% of respondents who reported receiving an MG perceived this information as 'very easy' (27.3%), 'somewhat easy' (28.3%) or 'about average' (29.3%) to read. Eighty-seven percent of respondents who reported receiving an MG perceived it as 'very easy' (27.6%), 'somewhat easy' (30.2%) or 'about average' (29.5%) to understand. ANOVAs revealed higher average perceived MG reading and comprehension ease scores among respondents presumed to have adequate versus inadequate HL (ps ≤ 0.0006). Younger or less-educated respondents and non-Hispanic Blacks perceived MGs as easier to read and understand, on average, than their counterparts (p s ≤ 0.0001). Many of these relationships remained intact in models predicting perceived MG reading and comprehension ease (p s ≤ 0.001). Adjusted R 2 values across models were small, however (≤0.06). Our findings suggest most US residents (18+) who received MGs perceived them to be 'about average' to 'very easy' to read and understand. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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