Problems in Understanding Prescription Labels
- 1 August 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Vol. 69 (1) , 291-294
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.1989.69.1.291
Abstract
Reading prescription labels on medication bottles is often confusing. If medication is taken incorrectly, it may have deleterious effects. Questionnaires containing authentic prescription labels were administered to college students to interpret. Analysis suggests that less than half of those surveyed interpreted the labels correctly. Rated confidence in responding seemed to be a function of correctness.This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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