Heller, MK;
Chapman, SCE;
Horne, R;
(2017)
No blank slates: Pre-existing schemas about pharmaceuticals predict memory for side effects.
Psychology and Health
, 32
(4)
pp. 402-421.
10.1080/08870446.2016.1273355.
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Abstract
OBJECTIVES: Attribution of symptoms as medication side effects is informed by pre-existing beliefs about medicines and perceptions of personal sensitivity to their effects (pharmaceutical schemas). We tested whether (1) pharmaceutical schemas were associated with memory (recall/recognition) for side effect information (2) memory explained the attribution of a common unrelated symptom as a side effect. DESIGN: In this analogue study participants saw the patient leaflet of a fictitious asthma drug listing eight side effects. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: We measured recall and recognition memory for side effects and used a vignette to test whether participants attributed an unlisted common symptom (headache) as a side effect. RESULTS: Participants who perceived pharmaceuticals as more harmful in general recalled fewer side effects correctly (rCorrect Recall = −.273), were less able to differentiate between listed and unlisted side effects (rRecognition Sensitivity = −.256) and were more likely to attribute the unlisted headache symptom as a side effect (rside effect attribution = .381, ps < .01). The effect of harm beliefs on side effect attribution was partially mediated by correct recall of side effects. CONCLUSION: Pharmaceutical schemas are associated with memory for side effect information. Memory may explain part of the association between pharmaceutical schemas and the attribution of unrelated symptoms as side effects.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | No blank slates: Pre-existing schemas about pharmaceuticals predict memory for side effects |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/08870446.2016.1273355 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2016.1273355 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Science & Technology, Social Sciences, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Public, Environmental & Occupational Health, Psychology, Multidisciplinary, Psychology, Pharmaceutical Schemas, Memory, Side Effects, Beliefs About Medicines, Questionnaire, Perceived Sensitivity To Medicines Scale, Fuzzy-Trace Theory, Rheumatoid-Arthritis, Medical Information, Attentional Biases, Medicines, Beliefs, Adherence, Illness, Representation, Sensitivity |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > UCL School of Pharmacy UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > UCL School of Pharmacy > Practice and Policy |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1544876 |
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