노인 시지각 특성을 고려한 처방약 약포지 디자인 개발 연구

Background: According to a 2017 survey of elderly people, 89.5% of the elderly have one or more diseases diagnosed by the doctors. And It was found that an average elderly person takes 4.1 drugs were taken per day. According to a prior study of drug use in the elderly, the types of drug misuse in the elderly include overuse of drug dose, use of low dose and non-compliance with medication time. This is because the majority of patients taking the drugs in the long term are elderly people with poor visual cognitive ability, but medication guidance is not fully considering this situation. Therefore, it is intended to present a design development direction that can deliver important information suitable for the characteristics of the elderly on charta, which can be said to be the final step in medication guidance for the elderly who are taking multiple drugs for chronic diseases. Methods: To identify the problems of the current charta, 1)The phenomenon of the deterioration of visual perception ability of the elderly according to aging was examined. 2)The types of medicine packages were collected and analyzed according to the form of prescription medicine preparations. 3)The method and problems of the visual information delivery of the charta were identified. 4)Surveys and problems were identified for those over 65 who were taking chronic disease drugs and multi-drugs. 5)A charta improvement plan considering the visual perception characteristics of the elderly was presented. 6)Design improvement proposals for text type and graphic type were presented along with whether or not to apply color. 7)User convenience verification of the improved charta was performed. 8)The design was improved and secured by applying the charta design corrections shown in the verification. Result: Through the problem analysis, information of charta was classified into important information and auxiliary information. After that, the contents of the display were subdivided into text and graphics, and the design development direction of charta, which can be said the final stage in the medication counseling, was presented. Conclusion : This study is expected to minimize confusion and inconvenience even when patients keep or carry only the charta by making the drug information, which has been limited to the prescription drug envelope, on the chata. Although there may be limitations on the improved design application due to the limitations of the color printing function of the ATC printing device selectively used by the pharmacy, it is expected that it will be possible to solve the problem if the colored part is printed in advance. It is expected that this study will be helpful in the delivery of drug information considering the visual perception characteristics of the elderly.