Table 2.
Participants correctly understanding PILs instructions among total participants, text only group, and text-plus pictograms group.
| Items | Total |
Text only |
Text-plus pictograms |
p-value† | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Based on the leaflet instructions: | n | % | n | % | n | % | |
| How much medication does your child need? | 90 | 69.23 | 43 | 65.15 | 47 | 73.44 | 0.306 |
| How often should you give your child this medication? | 100 | 76.92 | 51 | 77.27 | 49 | 76.56 | 0.923 |
| How will you administer the medication to your child? | 126 | 96.92 | 65 | 98.48 | 61 | 95.31 | 0.295 |
| What is the minimum time between doses of medication that you can give to your child? | 54 | 41.54 | 19 | 28.79 | 35 | 54.96 | 0.003 |
| How many doses per day can you give to your child? | 79 | 60.77 | 37 | 56.06 | 42 | 65.63 | 0.264 |
| Should the medication be shaken before use? | 87 | 66.92 | 40 | 60.61 | 47 | 73.44 | 0.120 |
| Where should you store the medication? | 26 | 20.00 | 7 | 10.61 | 19 | 29.69 | 0.007 |
| Assume your child suffers from side effects from the medication, who should you call to report side effects? | 63 | 48.46 | 27 | 40.91 | 36 | 56.25 | 0.080 |
p-value < 0.05 is statistically significant.