PictureRx: An Intervention to Reduce Latino Health Disparities (Supplement: Medical Icons)

PictureRx: An Intervention to Reduce Latino Health Disparities (Supplement: Medical Icons)

Research shows that well-developed icons and other pictorials aid in the comprehension of medication information and are effective in improving patients' medication management. This experimental study seeks to test the effect of icons and structured medication information on subjects' processing and recall of simulated medication instructions in a computer testing environment. The study planned to enroll 200 subjects.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Be at least 18 years old
• Fluency in English or Spanish
• Manage their own prescription medicines, and
• Be taking at least one chronic medication

Exclusion Criteria:

• Too ill to complete the experiment
• Having visual acuity worse than 20/50 via Rosenbaum Visual Acuity exam (eyechart)
• Inability to communicate in either Spanish or English
• Overt psychiatric illnesses, overt delirium or dementia