Perceptions amongst medication users regarding South African patient package inserts (PPIs) of scheduled and over-the-counter (OTC) medications
This article reports on the PPI itself, its information, and language usage in the texts, as tested in focus-group sessions, using content analysis. Quantitative readability assessments of selected PPIs revealed that the texts were mostly “difficult” or “very difficult”. However, readability relies...
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This article reports on the PPI itself, its information, and language usage in the texts, as tested in
focus-group sessions, using content analysis. Quantitative readability assessments of selected
PPIs revealed that the texts were mostly “difficult” or “very difficult”. However, readability relies not
only on text variables, but also on interaction between reader and text. From the findings, certain
recommendations are suggested to enhance the reader accessibility and cultural competence
of such documents. If PPIs, as a health communication tool, can be seen to be valuable and
easily comprehensible sources of medication information, they can fulfil a necessary role in health
literacy, especially in a multicultural, developing country such as South Africa, one typified by
huge class differences and where more than two-thirds of its households fall within the lower- to
middle-income groups.
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| spelling | doaj-art-3037dc34d0d049919bbf51b4ddacfce42025-01-20T08:53:33ZengUniversity of JohannesburgCommunicare0259-00692957-79502022-10-0128110.36615/jcsa.v28i1.1701Perceptions amongst medication users regarding South African patient package inserts (PPIs) of scheduled and over-the-counter (OTC) medicationsDaleen Krige0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4224-9213Johann Cornelius de Wet1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2022-0660University of the Free StateUniversity of the Free State This article reports on the PPI itself, its information, and language usage in the texts, as tested in focus-group sessions, using content analysis. Quantitative readability assessments of selected PPIs revealed that the texts were mostly “difficult” or “very difficult”. However, readability relies not only on text variables, but also on interaction between reader and text. From the findings, certain recommendations are suggested to enhance the reader accessibility and cultural competence of such documents. If PPIs, as a health communication tool, can be seen to be valuable and easily comprehensible sources of medication information, they can fulfil a necessary role in health literacy, especially in a multicultural, developing country such as South Africa, one typified by huge class differences and where more than two-thirds of its households fall within the lower- to middle-income groups. https://journals.uj.ac.za/index.php/jcsa/article/view/1701patient package inserts (PPIs)over-the-counter (OTC)medication usersSouth Africanhealth communicationclass differences |
| spellingShingle | Daleen Krige Johann Cornelius de Wet Perceptions amongst medication users regarding South African patient package inserts (PPIs) of scheduled and over-the-counter (OTC) medications Communicare patient package inserts (PPIs) over-the-counter (OTC) medication users South African health communication class differences |
| title | Perceptions amongst medication users regarding South African patient package inserts (PPIs) of scheduled and over-the-counter (OTC) medications |
| title_full | Perceptions amongst medication users regarding South African patient package inserts (PPIs) of scheduled and over-the-counter (OTC) medications |
| title_fullStr | Perceptions amongst medication users regarding South African patient package inserts (PPIs) of scheduled and over-the-counter (OTC) medications |
| title_full_unstemmed | Perceptions amongst medication users regarding South African patient package inserts (PPIs) of scheduled and over-the-counter (OTC) medications |
| title_short | Perceptions amongst medication users regarding South African patient package inserts (PPIs) of scheduled and over-the-counter (OTC) medications |
| title_sort | perceptions amongst medication users regarding south african patient package inserts ppis of scheduled and over the counter otc medications |
| topic | patient package inserts (PPIs) over-the-counter (OTC) medication users South African health communication class differences |
| url | https://journals.uj.ac.za/index.php/jcsa/article/view/1701 |
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