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Title: Development and evaluation of user-tested Thai patient information leaflets for non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs: Effect on patients' knowledge
Authors: Jarernsiripornkul N.
Phueanpinit P.
Pongwecharak J.
Krska J.
Keywords: nonsteroid antiinflammatory agent
nonsteroid antiinflammatory agent
adult
aged
Article
clinical effectiveness
clinical practice
educational status
feasibility study
female
follow up
human
language
major clinical study
male
outpatient department
patient education
patient information
patient information leaflet
practice guideline
prescription
Thai (language)
Thai (people)
visual analog scale
attitude to health
evaluation study
middle aged
patient education
publication
questionnaire
Thailand
Adult
Aged
Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal
Female
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Pamphlets
Patient Education as Topic
Surveys and Questionnaires
Thailand
Issue Date: 2019
Abstract: Introduction: Thai patients do not routinely receive patient information leaflets (PILs) with medicines, so awareness of safety issues is low. This study aimed: i) to develop Thai PILs for NSAIDs and subject these to user-testing, and ii) to assess the potential value of PILs from the patient perspective and effect on patient knowledge. Methods: Four PILs for NSAIDs were developed and subjected to multiple rounds of user-testing by the general public. Self-administered questionnaires were distributed to orthopaedic outpatients prescribed one of these NSAIDs, assessing knowledge before and after providing a PIL. The follow-up questionnaire also sought use of and views on the PILs using a visual analogue scale (VAS). Results: 1,240 baseline questionnaires were completed; only 13.5% of patients had good knowledge. 688 patients returned follow-up questionnaires (55.5%), of whom75% had good knowledge. In patients completing both questionnaires, mean knowledge score increased from 6.22±1.40 to 8.42±1.41 (p<0.001). Patients with high educational levels had high baseline scores (OR = 2.728) and showed greatest improvement in knowledge (OR = 5.628). 90% (625) of follow-up respondents indicated they read all information in the PILs. All also agreed that these PILs should distributed to all patients taking NSAIDs. The median VAS score for usefulness was 9.3 (IQR 8.6-10.0). Conclusions: User-testing of PILs was feasible in a Thai population and enabled the development of acceptable and desirable PILs. PILs could improve patients' knowledge about their medicine, particularly among those with higher educational level. User-tested PILS could meet the need for more written medicine information. Copyright: © 2019 Jarernsiripornkul et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
URI: https://ir.swu.ac.th/jspui/handle/123456789/12669
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85059798447&doi=10.1371%2fjournal.pone.0210395&partnerID=40&md5=29620ceef70b902458bdd065aaf510bd
ISSN: 19326203
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