Brown C S, Solovitz B L, Bryant S G, Guernsey B G, Fisher S
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston 77550.
Drug Intell Clin Pharm. 1988 Jun;22(6):470-4. doi: 10.1177/106002808802200605.
The purpose of this study was to determine the efficacy of auxiliary prescription labels in educating outpatients about medicines at two different time periods. Five hundred fifty-nine patients were randomly assigned either to an experimental group or a control group; each person in the experimental group received a prescription bottle to which one study auxiliary label ("sticker") had been affixed, and those in the control group received bottles with no study sticker attached. Patients were interviewed by telephone approximately one week or two months after prescription pick up. Patients who had the study sticker affixed to their prescription bottle were significantly more knowledgeable after one week about precautionary information than those patients who did not receive stickers; however, sticker-group patients receiving the delayed interview incorrectly attributed many precautions to their medication. This is the first controlled study to document that auxiliary labels increase short-term knowledge about medications, and to suggest that the same labels may result in an inappropriate generalization over time.
本研究的目的是确定辅助处方标签在两个不同时间段对门诊患者进行用药教育的效果。559名患者被随机分为实验组或对照组；实验组的每个人收到一个贴有一张研究辅助标签（“贴纸”）的药瓶，而对照组的患者收到的药瓶没有贴上研究贴纸。在患者取药后大约一周或两个月通过电话进行访谈。在处方瓶上贴有研究贴纸的患者在一周后对预防信息的了解明显比未收到贴纸的患者更多；然而，接受延迟访谈的贴纸组患者将许多预防措施错误地归因于他们所服用的药物。这是第一项对照研究，证明辅助标签可增加对药物的短期了解，并表明随着时间的推移，相同的标签可能会导致不恰当的泛化。
