PictureRx: An Intervention to Reduce Latino Health Disparities (Supplement: Medical Icons)

PictureRx

Status: Completed

Conditions: Understanding of Medication Instructions; Recall of Medication Instructions

Treatments: Behavioral: Structured instructions; Behavioral: Drug indication icons

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT01618461

3R43MD004048-02S1 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

Research shows that well-developed icons and other pictorials aid in the comprehension of medication information and are effective in improving patients' medication management. This experimental study seeks to test the effect of icons and structured medication information on subjects' processing and recall of simulated medication instructions in a computer testing environment. The study planned to enroll 200 subjects.

Enrollment: 200 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Be at least 18 years old
• Fluency in English or Spanish
• Manage their own prescription medicines, and
• Be taking at least one chronic medication

Exclusion criteria

• Too ill to complete the experiment
• Having visual acuity worse than 20/50 via Rosenbaum Visual Acuity exam (eyechart)
• Inability to communicate in either Spanish or English
• Overt psychiatric illnesses, overt delirium or dementia

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Factorial Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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200 participants in 4 patient groups

Text instructions

No Intervention group

Description:

Medication instructions displayed in text format

Drug indication icons

Experimental group

Description:

Icons illustrate the purpose of each medication

Treatment:

Behavioral: Drug indication icons

Structured instructions

Experimental group

Description:

Graphical format shows what time(s) of day each medication should be taken

Treatment:

Behavioral: Structured instructions

Icons + Structured instructions

Experimental group

Description:

Icons illustrate the purpose of each medication, and a graphical format shows what time(s) of day each medication should be taken

Treatment:

Behavioral: Structured instructions

Behavioral: Drug indication icons