Research in social & administrative pharmacy : RSAP
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November 2016
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Res Social Adm Pharm · Nov 2016
ReviewA systematic review of interventions to improve medication information for low health literate populations.
Health literacy is a barrier to accurately understanding medication information. Current medication information is too difficult to understand for low health literate populations, which imposes a higher risk of misinterpreting prescription label instructions, dosage, duration, frequency, warning labels, written information and verbal pharmacist counseling. ⋯ Interventions designed to support low health literate populations can improve patients' medication knowledge and adherence. The most effective interventions include additional aids that enforce written information, information that is personalized, information that is easy to navigate and tools that can be accessed when needed.