The effectiveness of using pictograms and text on medication labels at primary healthcare facilities in Cape Town
dc.contributor.advisor | Van Huyssteen, M | |
dc.contributor.author | Heyns, Jeanne | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-10-20T07:57:46Z | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-05-15T07:43:00Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-10-20T07:57:46Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-05-15T07:43:00Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020 | |
dc.description | Magister Pharmaceuticae - MPharm | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | 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 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10566/15175 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | University of the Western Cape | en_US |
dc.rights.holder | University of the Western Cape | en_US |
dc.subject | Cape Town | en_US |
dc.subject | Tygerberg | en_US |
dc.subject | Community health center | en_US |
dc.subject | Medication | en_US |
dc.title | The effectiveness of using pictograms and text on medication labels at primary healthcare facilities in Cape Town | en_US |