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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jun 30.
Published in final edited form as: Health Commun. 2017 Nov 10;34(2):212–219. doi: 10.1080/10410236.2017.1399509

Table 1.

Risks presented during the major statement (N = 50).

Mean Standard deviation
Ad length in seconds 70.20 21.74
Major statement length in seconds 33.00 13.30
Length of ad after major statement in seconds 9.00 4.49
Number of risk concepts 20.50 8.85
n %
At least one boxed warning in PI 23 46
 Boxed warning listed first in major statement 20 87
 Every boxed warning in audio 7 30
 Every boxed warning in audio or superimposed text 4 17
Major statement included risk concepts from Warnings and Precautions and Adverse Events sections of PI 48 96
 Warnings and Precautions listed first 32 67
Adverse Events ordered by prevalencea 3 27

Note. PI = Prescribing information.

a

Out of 11 major statements that had more than one adverse event in the major statement and had a PI with prevalence rates for all adverse events.