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

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Conditions studied: Understanding of Medication Instructions, Recall of Medication Instructions

In brief

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.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01618461

Run by

PictureRx, LLC

People needed

200

Starts

2011-06-01

Expected to finish

2011-07-01

Last updated by the study team

2012-06-13

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

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

You may not qualify if…

• 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

Where it is running

• Saint Thomas Family Health Center - West — Nashville, Tennessee, United States
• Saint Thomas Family Health Center - South — Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

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