Evaluation of efficiencies of the medicine bag printed with the patient drug information and the photographs of medicine: Comparison to the patient drug information leaflet with photographs of medicine

Utilities between patient drug information leaflets printed with photograph s of medicines (Leaflet method) and medicine bags printed with the same con tent of the leaflet (Bag method) were compared and evaluated by a questionn aire to patients. Four hundred twenty eight and 401 questionnaires were ret urned for the bag method and for the leaflet one, respectively. Consequentl y, the reading frequency of the presented literature by the bag method was significantly higher than that by the leaflet method. The bag method was mo re effective than the leaflet method on the reading frequency among patient s at the age 50's, whose reading frequency for the presented literature was thought to be lowest. Less than 20% of patients answered that missing to t ake medicine could be improved by patient drug information, while more than 50% of patients answered that they could learn the names and the effects o f medicines from the patient drug information in any method. The bag method is useful to increase the reading frequency of the patients for the presen ted literature about drug information.