Addressing low health literacy with "Talking Pill Bottles": A pilot study in a community pharmacy setting.

Objectives: To test the effect of "Talking Pill Bottles" on medication self-efficacy, knowledge, adherence, and blood pressure readings among hypertensive patients with low health literacy and to assess patients' acceptance of this innovation.

Design: Longitudinal nonblinded randomized trial with standard treatment and intervention arms.

Setting And Participants: Two community pharmacies serving an ethnically diverse population in the Pacific Northwest.

Redesigning pictographs for patients with low health literacy and establishing preliminary steps for delivery via smart phones.

Background: Pictographs (or pictograms) have been widely utilized to convey medication related messages and to address nonadherence among patients with low health literacy. Yet, patients do not always interpret the intended messages on commonly used pictographs correctly and there are questions how they may be delivered on mobile devices.

Objective: Our objectives are to refine a set of pictographs to use as medication reminders and to establish preliminary steps for delivery via smart phones.