Perceptions amongst medication users regarding South African patient package inserts (PPIs) of scheduled and over-the-counter (OTC) medications.
This article reports on the PPI itself, its information, and language usage in the texts, as tested in focus-group sessions, using content analysis. Quantitative readability assessments of selected PPIs revealed that the texts were mostly "difficult" or "very difficult". However, readability relies...
| Publicado en: | Communicare Vol. 28; no. 1; pp. 88 - 103 |
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Communicare, Journal for Communication Sciences in South Africa
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