We located one study in health education that compared attention given to just text with attention given to text plus pictures. This study, by Delp and Jones [2], studied 234 patients coming to an emergency room with lacerations. After receiving treatment, but prior to discharge, patients were given printed instructions for caring for their wounds at home. Half were randomly given just text and the other half received the same text plus pictures that illustrated the information in the text. Fig. 1 shows examples of the text and pictures they used. Subjects were interviewed by phone three days later and asked if they had read the instructions (attention). If they had, they.
