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Assessment of self‐reporting reading of medicine's labels and the resources of information about medicines in general public in Malaysia
This study was undertaken to assess the people's self‐reported reading of medicine labels and its associated factors and to assess the sources of information about medicines among general public. A cross‐sectional study was carried out among general public in the State of Penang, Malaysia. A to...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5832899/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29511566 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/prp2.387 |
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author | Dawood, Omar T. Hassali, Mohamed A. Saleem, Fahad Ibrahim, Inas R. |
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description | This study was undertaken to assess the people's self‐reported reading of medicine labels and its associated factors and to assess the sources of information about medicines among general public. A cross‐sectional study was carried out among general public in the State of Penang, Malaysia. A total of 888 participants were conveniently selected and completed the survey. A self‐administered questionnaire was used to obtain the data from all the participants. Most of the participants (74.2%) reported that they have adequate information about medicines provided on their medicine labels. In addition, 86.9% of them reported that they read their medicine's label for the directions of usage and 84.3% for the dosage instruction. However, 42.1% of the participants do not read their medicine's label for the active ingredients, and 33% of them do not read their medicine's label for the safety information. In addition, 36.5% of the respondents did not read the label of medicine for the symptoms which can be used for. However, females, Malay respondents, and higher education level (college/university) were more likely to self‐reported the reading medicine's label. Females were more likely to read the labels of medicines compared with males (OR = 1.6, 95% CI 1.20‐2.13, P = .001). The reading of medicine labels was predicted by females, Malay respondents, and higher educated people. Health educational programs are needed to clarify label's information that can help in concept of patient safety. |
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spelling | pubmed-58328992018-03-06 Assessment of self‐reporting reading of medicine's labels and the resources of information about medicines in general public in Malaysia Dawood, Omar T. Hassali, Mohamed A. Saleem, Fahad Ibrahim, Inas R. Pharmacol Res Perspect Original Articles This study was undertaken to assess the people's self‐reported reading of medicine labels and its associated factors and to assess the sources of information about medicines among general public. A cross‐sectional study was carried out among general public in the State of Penang, Malaysia. A total of 888 participants were conveniently selected and completed the survey. A self‐administered questionnaire was used to obtain the data from all the participants. Most of the participants (74.2%) reported that they have adequate information about medicines provided on their medicine labels. In addition, 86.9% of them reported that they read their medicine's label for the directions of usage and 84.3% for the dosage instruction. However, 42.1% of the participants do not read their medicine's label for the active ingredients, and 33% of them do not read their medicine's label for the safety information. In addition, 36.5% of the respondents did not read the label of medicine for the symptoms which can be used for. However, females, Malay respondents, and higher education level (college/university) were more likely to self‐reported the reading medicine's label. Females were more likely to read the labels of medicines compared with males (OR = 1.6, 95% CI 1.20‐2.13, P = .001). The reading of medicine labels was predicted by females, Malay respondents, and higher educated people. Health educational programs are needed to clarify label's information that can help in concept of patient safety. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018-03-02 /pmc/articles/PMC5832899/ /pubmed/29511566 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/prp2.387 Text en © 2018 The Authors. Pharmacology Research & Perspectives published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd, British Pharmacological Society and American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes. |
spellingShingle | Original Articles Dawood, Omar T. Hassali, Mohamed A. Saleem, Fahad Ibrahim, Inas R. Assessment of self‐reporting reading of medicine's labels and the resources of information about medicines in general public in Malaysia |
title | Assessment of self‐reporting reading of medicine's labels and the resources of information about medicines in general public in Malaysia |
title_full | Assessment of self‐reporting reading of medicine's labels and the resources of information about medicines in general public in Malaysia |
title_fullStr | Assessment of self‐reporting reading of medicine's labels and the resources of information about medicines in general public in Malaysia |
title_full_unstemmed | Assessment of self‐reporting reading of medicine's labels and the resources of information about medicines in general public in Malaysia |
title_short | Assessment of self‐reporting reading of medicine's labels and the resources of information about medicines in general public in Malaysia |
title_sort | assessment of self‐reporting reading of medicine's labels and the resources of information about medicines in general public in malaysia |
topic | Original Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5832899/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29511566 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/prp2.387 |
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