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http://dx.doi.org/10.17480/psk.2015.59.1.23

A Basic Study on Color Preference of Medicine in Patient for Improving Compliance  

Ye, Kong Nam (College of Pharmacy, The Catholic University of Korea)
Kim, Min Joung (College of Pharmacy, The Catholic University of Korea)
Kim, Jung Tae (Department of Pharmacy, Kyung Hee University Hospital at Gang-dong)
Lim, Sung Cil (College of Pharmacy, The Catholic University of Korea)
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YAKHAK HOEJI / v.59, no.1, 2015 , pp. 23-28 More about this Journal
Abstract
Everyone has own color preference and the color preference can affect human psychology in various good or bad ways. Especially patients with chronic diseases often have depressed mood to take pills for their disease treatment. Therefore we evaluate the possibility of their color preference to pharmacotherapy in good way which increases the compliance of pharmacotherapy. We performed this study by a Questionnaire survey for total 150 agreed patients at K University hospital from Aug 7 to Sep 30, 2014. Questionnaire survey was performed to choose color of providing color kit (11 different color range kit) depend on each 16 questions which asked the patient characteristics, health condition, general color preference, color preference for medicine and expectation for drug compliance. In results, most preferred color was blue (20%), whereas disliked color was black (30%) in general life. However, most preferred color for pill was white (32%), for syrup was also white (31%) or orange (28%), and for vitamin was yellow (47%). When we asked the possibility of increasing compliance, if the current taking pill color will be changed for your preference color like a candy bar, 50.4% of respondents marked 4 or 5 of like-scale expressing positive opinion on it. In conclusion, compliance is very important to succeed the treating disease and may apply the psychologic application such as each patient color preference for drug compliance in the future.
Keywords
color; preference; compliance; chronic disease;
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