Understanding color associations and their effects on expectations of drugs' efficacies

RM Amawi, MJ Murdoch - Pharmacy, 2022 - mdpi.com
Colors influence our daily perceptions and expectations that manifest in a variety of ways.
This research has three main objectives: to demonstrate the relationship between the colors …

Effects of pill colors on human perception and expectation of drugs' efficacy

RM Amawi, MJ Murdoch - Color Research & Application, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The physical appearance of pills, especially their color, affect expectations of their efficacy in
addition to their intended medicinal effect. The purpose of this study is to understand the …

Effects of color on expectations of drug effects: A cross‐gender cross‐cultural study

D Tao, T Wang, T Wang - Color Research & Application, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
To study the role of color in expectations of drug effects, 80 Chinese participants (40 females
and 40 males) were asked to classify each of seven single colored capsules and six …

Influence of drug colour on perceived drug effects and efficacy

D Tao, T Wang, T Wang, X Qu - Ergonomics, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
A drug's physical characteristics, such as colour, could be factors influencing its therapeutic
effects. It is not well understood whether people's expectations on drug effects and efficacy …

Colour of medicines and children's acceptability? A systematic literature review of children's perceptions about colours of oral dosage forms

E Alessandrini, M Gonakova, H Batchelor… - Pharmaceutics, 2023 - mdpi.com
The colour of a product plays an important role in consumer experiences, and in the context
of pharmaceutical products, this could potentially affect a patient's expectations, behaviours …

Relation of capsule color and perceived potency

RE Sailis, LW Buckalew - Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1984 - journals.sagepub.com
Perceptual properties of medications can elicit specific expectancies and may have
implications for patients' compliance. To explore the relationship between capsules' color …

Assessing the expectations associated with pharmaceutical pill colour and shape

X Wan, AT Woods, A Salgado-Montejo… - Food Quality and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Two experiments are reported in which people's sensory, hedonic, and efficacy expectations
associated with pharmaceutical pills of differing colour and shape were assessed. In …

[PDF][PDF] IMPACT OF PACKAGING'COLOR ON PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCT PERCEPTION AND CONSUMER BELIEFS.

A Arabi - Annals of'Constantin Brancusi'University of Targu-Jiu …, 2018 - academia.edu
Design packaging and in particular its color is often evoked by the consumer as a reason
justifying the desire or not to consume the offered product. Colors are considered as a …

Effect of colour of drugs: systematic review of perceived effect of drugs and of their effectiveness

AJM De Craen, PJ Roos, AL De Vries, J Kleijnen - Bmj, 1996 - bmj.com
Objectives: To assess the impact of the colour of a drug9s formulation on its perceived effect
and its effectiveness and to examine whether antidepressant drugs available in the …

The Manchester Color Wheel: development of a novel way of identifying color choice and its validation in healthy, anxious and depressed individuals

HR Carruthers, J Morris, N Tarrier… - BMC medical research …, 2010 - Springer
Background For the purposes of our research programme we needed a simple, reliable and
validated method for allowing choice of a color in response to a series of questions. On …