diff --git a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-sqlite3/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/sqlite3/__init__.py b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-sqlite3/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/sqlite3/__init__.py
index 1ec4794e96..91dd1ceedb 100644
--- a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-sqlite3/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/sqlite3/__init__.py
+++ b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-sqlite3/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/sqlite3/__init__.py
@@ -14,7 +14,8 @@
 
 """
 SQLite instrumentation supporting `sqlite3`_, it can be enabled by
-using ``SQLite3Instrumentor``.
+using ``SQLite3Instrumentor``. At this time, cursor objects must
+be explicitly initialized as shown below to support tracing.
 
 .. _sqlite3: https://docs.python.org/3/library/sqlite3.html