The suitability of United States pharmacopoeia dispensory information psychotropic drug leaflets for urban patients with limited reading skills
✍ Scribed by Feleta L. Wilson
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 669 KB
- Volume
- 13
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1532-8228
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
Although considerable research exist on the readability of patient education materials, few studies have focused on the efficacy of information drug leaflets used for psychopharmacology education of patients with limited reading skills. The purpose of this investigation was to evaluate the suitability of United States Pharmacopoeia Dispensary Information (USP-DI) drug leaflets (N = 42) for educating urban in-patients at a psychiatric unit using measurement criteria of the Suitability Assessment for Materials (SAM) instrument. The findings showed the USP-D! information drug leaflets were unsuitable as an educational tool for psychiatric in-patients with poor reading ability.