Comprehensibility of a personalized medication overview compared to usual-care prescription drug labels.

ABSTRACT: Poor understanding of prescription drug label (PDL) instructions can lead to medication errors, suboptimal treatment (side) effects, and non-adherence. A personalized medication hard-copy overview listing PDL instructions and visual information may support patients in their medication use. This study aimed to investigate the comprehensibility of PDL instructions on a personalized medication overview compared to usual-care PDL instructions presented on a medication box. A hypothetical-online-experiment was set up, comparing groups of respondents exposed vs not exposed to the medication overview and who received PDL instructions for three, five, or eight medications. Participants were divided randomly in six groups. Online questionnaires were sent to a stratified sample of 900 members from t

SUBMITTER: Schackmann L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9650257 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature