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Health Psychol Open. 2016 Apr 07;3(1):2055102916641955. doi: 10.1177/2055102916641955. eCollection 2016 Jan.

Confusing the drug facts on one nonprescription drug label with those on another: The Drug Facts Label as a text schema.

Health psychology open

Michael P Ryan, Reagan N Costello-White, Mercedes N Sandoval

Affiliations

  1. The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA.

PMID: 28070399 PMCID: PMC5193252 DOI: 10.1177/2055102916641955

Abstract

The Drug Facts Label is designed to guide consumers in comparing nonprescription drugs. Undergraduates studied and recalled drug facts for three analgesic or non-analgesic labels using Drug Facts Label headings as retrieval cues. They then studied and recalled drug facts from an aspirin label. Aspirin recall was greater when the prior labels were analgesics, but prior-label intrusion errors were also greater. These two effects were associated with the number of prior drug labels on which facilitating and interfering drug facts appeared. Using the Drug Facts Label schema to read drug labels can both enhance and degrade the recall of nonprescription drug facts.

Keywords: analgesics; intrusion errors; label recall; nonprescription drugs; text schema

Conflict of interest statement

The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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