María Valcárcel Jiménez, Melike Yumus, Tina Schiele, Anna Mues, Frank Niklas
Preschool emergent literacy skills as predictors of reading and spelling in Grade 2 and the role of migration background in Germany
Journal of experimental child psychology
although patients frequently use patient information leaflets pils obtain information medicine confidence using may diminished reading study aimed assess public perception pils quality perceived impact use medication adherence communitybased crosssectional study 1138 adult individuals saudi arabia aprilmay 2020 conducted via survey monkey using anonymous validated equestionnaire data collected personal characteristics pil readership preferences perception towards pil quality impact use taking medication reasons reading pil addition logistic regression analysis performed identify significant predictors reading pil significance considered p 005 nearly participants 911 reported reading pil read pils sections directions use 527 side effects 303 female gender 564 95ci 353902 age 40 years 280 95ci 169464 secondary education 174 95ci 106285 significant predictors reading pil majority pil readers reported preference verbal information 658 hard copy presentation 77 adding graphics 711 concise content pil 688 addition participants reported pil alwaysusually adds knowledge medicines 706 said pil reading positively impacted medication adherence 649 88 pil reading negatively impacted adherence primarily reading information medicines side effects complications 744 onehalf participants perceived pil quality goodexcellent terms font size 513 language comprehensiveness 649 paper quality 680 general appearance 649 getting sufficient information doctors pharmacists main reason reading pil 592 participants 925 agreed standardizing information displayed pil among pils companies pil read nearly study sample especially females older educated subjects perceived beneficial upgrading medication adherence effective designing pils focus patients literacy level age standardization pil structure pharmaceutical companies recommended