대학생의 약물용어 이해도 분석

Understanding of Medication Instruction in College Students

Purpose: The purposes of this study were to investigate the medication related terms in medication instruction which are difficult to be understood by the lay person and to identify the difference between consumer vocabulary and medical vocabulary. Method: A total of 112 medication instructions were reviewed by 162 college students. The medication-related terms were collected as objects of this study and these terms were analyzed for their difficulty and frequency (the repeated number of a term). Results: The high rate of difficulty was found in the terms related to the name of disease, sign & symptom, side effect, anatomy, and pathophysiology. The difference between the consumer vocabulary for the medical vocabulary was not high. However, foreign words or chinese words were appreciated as a difficult word and replaced by more friendly and easier terms to the lay persons. Conclusions: The results of this study support that the medical terms need to be customized to the health care consumers and it is essential to investigate further various age group's understanding of medical terminology.