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      Pictogramas farmacéuticos: ¿una oportunidad para la Alfabetización en Salud? Translated title: Pharmaceutical Pictograms: an opportunity for Health Literacy?

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          Resumen Introducción: El material educativo para el uso del medicamento frecuentemente es poco legible para el paciente, especialmente si es poco Alfabetizado en Salud. Ello pone en relieve la necesidad de alternativas al prospecto tradicional. El objetivo de este trabajo fue revisar la evidencia disponible sobre los pictogramas como herramienta conducente al uso racional del medicamento. Método: Se realizó una búsqueda de los artículos que consistieran en estudios de la eficacia comunicativa de los pictogramas farmacéuticos en Scopus, Web of Science y Medline a través de PubMed. Resultados: Se identificaron 24 estudios con los criterios de inclusión aplicados. 10 de los 12 estudios controlados aleatorizados obtuvieron resultados favorables a la inclusión de pictogramas. Los estudios transversales exploraron la importancia del contexto cultural o educativo. Todos los estudios longitudinales obtuvieron resultados positivos tras el seguimiento, que podrían explicarse gracias a una explicación previa. Conclusiones: Los pictogramas son una herramienta simple, económica y con un elevado potencial para mejorar el uso del medicamento.

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          Abstract Introduction: Instructional material for the use of medicines is often unreadable by the patient, especially if he or she is poorly literate in Health. This alleviates the need for alternatives to the traditional leaflets. The aim of this work was to review the available evidence on the pictograms as a tool leading to the rational use of medicines. Method: A search was carried out for articles that considered studies of the communicative efficacy of pharmaceutical pictograms from Scopus, Web of Science and Medline through PubMed. Results: 24 studies were identified with the inclusion criteria applied. 10 of the 12 randomized controlled studies obtained results favorable to the inclusion of pictograms. Cross-sectional studies explored the importance of cultural or educational context. All longitudinal studies obtained positive results after follow-up, which could be explained by prior knowledge. Conclusions: Pictograms are a simple, economical tool with a high potential to improve the use of medication.

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          Health literacy and public health: A systematic review and integration of definitions and models

          Background Health literacy concerns the knowledge and competences of persons to meet the complex demands of health in modern society. Although its importance is increasingly recognised, there is no consensus about the definition of health literacy or about its conceptual dimensions, which limits the possibilities for measurement and comparison. The aim of the study is to review definitions and models on health literacy to develop an integrated definition and conceptual model capturing the most comprehensive evidence-based dimensions of health literacy. Methods A systematic literature review was performed to identify definitions and conceptual frameworks of health literacy. A content analysis of the definitions and conceptual frameworks was carried out to identify the central dimensions of health literacy and develop an integrated model. Results The review resulted in 17 definitions of health literacy and 12 conceptual models. Based on the content analysis, an integrative conceptual model was developed containing 12 dimensions referring to the knowledge, motivation and competencies of accessing, understanding, appraising and applying health-related information within the healthcare, disease prevention and health promotion setting, respectively. Conclusions Based upon this review, a model is proposed integrating medical and public health views of health literacy. The model can serve as a basis for developing health literacy enhancing interventions and provide a conceptual basis for the development and validation of measurement tools, capturing the different dimensions of health literacy within the healthcare, disease prevention and health promotion settings.
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            Medication adherence: WHO cares?

            The treatment of chronic illnesses commonly includes the long-term use of pharmacotherapy. Although these medications are effective in combating disease, their full benefits are often not realized because approximately 50% of patients do not take their medications as prescribed. Factors contributing to poor medication adherence are myriad and include those that are related to patients (eg, suboptimal health literacy and lack of involvement in the treatment decision-making process), those that are related to physicians (eg, prescription of complex drug regimens, communication barriers, ineffective communication of information about adverse effects, and provision of care by multiple physicians), and those that are related to health care systems (eg, office visit time limitations, limited access to care, and lack of health information technology). Because barriers to medication adherence are complex and varied, solutions to improve adherence must be multifactorial. To assess general aspects of medication adherence using cardiovascular disease as an example, a MEDLINE-based literature search (January 1, 1990, through March 31, 2010) was conducted using the following search terms: cardiovascular disease, health literacy, medication adherence, and pharmacotherapy. Manual sorting of the 405 retrieved articles to exclude those that did not address cardiovascular disease, medication adherence, or health literacy in the abstract yielded 127 articles for review. Additional references were obtained from citations within the retrieved articles. This review surveys the findings of the identified articles and presents various strategies and resources for improving medication adherence.
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              The role of pictures in improving health communication: a review of research on attention, comprehension, recall, and adherence.

              To assess the effects of pictures on health communications. Peer reviewed studies in health education, psychology, education, and marketing journals were reviewed. There was no limit placed on the time periods searched. Pictures closely linked to written or spoken text can, when compared to text alone, markedly increase attention to and recall of health education information. Pictures can also improve comprehension when they show relationships among ideas or when they show spatial relationships. Pictures can change adherence to health instructions, but emotional response to pictures affects whether they increase or decrease target behaviors. All patients can benefit, but patients with low literacy skills are especially likely to benefit. Patients with very low literacy skills can be helped by spoken directions plus pictures to take home as reminders or by pictures plus very simply worded captions. Educators should: (1) ask "how can I use pictures to support key points?", (2) minimize distracting details in pictures, (3) use simple language in conjunction with pictures, (4) closely link pictures to text and/or captions, (5) include people from the intended audience in designing pictures, (6) have health professionals plan the pictures, not artists, and (7) evaluate pictures' effects by comparing response to materials with and without pictures.
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                Journal
                ars
                Ars Pharmaceutica (Internet)
                Ars Pharm
                Universidad de Granada (Granada, Granada, Spain )
                2340-9894
                September 2022
                : 63
                : 3
                : 274-293
                Affiliations
                [1] Granada Andalucía orgnameUniversidad de Granada orgdiv1Facultad de Farmacia orgdiv2Departamento de Farmacia y Tecnología Farmacéutica Spain
                [2] Melilla Andalucía orgnameUniversidad de Granada orgdiv1Servicios Médicos Centro Penitenciario de Melilla Spain
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                S2340-98942022000300274 S2340-9894(22)06300300274
                10.30827/ars.v63i3.23979
                36c2b425-685a-4526-b155-57dc1ca98004

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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                : 10 May 2022
                : 19 February 2022
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                pictogramas,“health education”,illustrated leaflet,“visual aids”,pictograms,“educación en salud”,“prospectos ilustrados”,“ayudas visuales”

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