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

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Understanding of Medication Instructions; Recall of Medication Instructions
• Interventions: Behavioral: Structured instructions; Behavioral: Drug indication icons

• Registration Number: NCT01618461
• Lead Sponsor: PictureRx, LLC

Brief Summary

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.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2011-06
• Primary Completion: 2011-07
• Study Completion: 2011-07
• Status Verified: 2012-06
• Study First Submitted: 2012-06-11
• Study First Submitted QC: 2012-06-11
• Last Update Submitted: 2012-06-11
• Study First Posted: 2012-06-13
• Last Update Posted: 2012-06-13

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 200

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

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: FACTORIAL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Structured instructions	Structured instructions	Graphical format shows what time(s) of day each medication should be taken
Icons + Structured instructions	Drug indication icons	Icons illustrate the purpose of each medication, and a graphical format shows what time(s) of day each medication should be taken
Icons + Structured instructions	Structured instructions	Icons illustrate the purpose of each medication, and a graphical format shows what time(s) of day each medication should be taken
Drug indication icons	Drug indication icons	Icons illustrate the purpose of each medication

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Understanding of medication instructions	Within 10-20 minutes	Participants' ability to state the drug indication

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Recall of medication instructions	Within 10-20 minutes	Participants' ability to recall the instructions after viewing a series of medications

Trial Locations

Locations (2)

Saint Thomas Family Health Center - South; 🇺🇸 Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Saint Thomas Family Health Center - West; 🇺🇸 Nashville, Tennessee, United States