A survey on perceived medication guide reading and comprehension ease among US adults
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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 (ps ≤ 0.0001). Many of these relationships remained intact in models predicting perceived MG reading and comprehension ease (ps ≤ 0.001). Adjusted R2 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.
Comprehension · Family medicine · Health care · Health literacy · Literacy · Medical prescription · Numeracy · Perception · Readability · Reading (process) · Usability · Computer Science · Health Literacy and Information Accessibility · Medicine · Nursing · Pharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes · Pharmacy · Psychology · Respiratory and Cough-Related Research · Gerontology
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