Browsing by Author "Heyns, Jeanne"

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    The effectiveness of using pictograms and text on medication labels at primary healthcare facilities in Cape Town
    (University of the Western Cape, 2020) Heyns, Jeanne; Van Huyssteen, M
    Medication labels are often the only information available to patients after obtaining medication 3 from the pharmacy or other healthcare practitioners. Inappropriately designed medicine labelling 4 contributes to poor interpretation and improper use, which could adversely affect patient health 5 outcomes. In developing countries, pictograms (pictures representing words or phrases), on 6 medicine labels tend to support patients’ ability to read, understand and recall information. 7 8 Objective 9 This comparative study examined low-literate participants’ interpretation of ‘text-and-pictogram’ 10 instructions versus ‘routine text-only’ instructions relative to the intended medicine use 11 instructions on an oral rehydration (OR) dry mixture sachet in public sector Community Health 12 Centres (CHCs) in Cape Town
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    The effectiveness of using text and pictograms on oral rehydration, dry-mixture sachet labels
    (AOSIS, 2021) Heyns, Jeanne; van Huyssteen, Mea; Bheekie, Angeni
    Medication labels are often the only information available to patients after obtaining medication from a healthcare practitioner. Pictograms are graphic symbols that have shown to increase understanding of medicine use instructions. To compare the accuracy of the interpretation of medicine use instructions from two different oral rehydration (OR) dry-mixture sachet labels – the control ‘routine textonly’ label and an experimental label with ‘text-and-pictograms’. Participants were recruited from waiting rooms in public primary health care (PHC) facilities in Cape Town. Method: Each participant was required to answer six questions about OR preparation. Response accuracy was determined by comparing the participant’s answer to the actual information written on the relevant label. Afterwards, participants could offer their opinion about the label and ways to improve their understanding.