In general, the view of children’s beliefs about medicines was that some medicines work better if taken after food, showing that the majority of children (93.6%) believed correctly that some medicines work better after food. Only 6.4% of them believe wrongly by answering ‘no’. According to the taste of medicines, about half (n ¼ 436) of children believed falsely that bitter medicines work better than other taste of medicines. While 10.5% (n ¼ 88) of them said that sweet medicines work better. Table 3 shows the distribution of children related to the beliefs about the efficacy of medicines. Regarding the colour of medicines, only 57.3% (n ¼ 482) of children answered correctly and they said that the efficacy of medicines is not related to their colours. However, around two-third (66.0%; n ¼ 556) of children answered correctly that the efficacy of medicines is not related to the size of the pill.