Attitude regarding insulin therapy
Majority of the respondents had a positive attitude regarding insulin role to prevent complication, to improve health and to better control blood glucose, and found insulin injection techniques easy and not-time consuming. However, patients were uncertain or their attitudes were clustered at the high and low extremes on insulin role compared to diet, exercise, and oral anti-hyperglycemic agents’ role, and dependence on physician because of insulin use. Cosson et al.21 evaluated perceptions of insulin therapy in patients with type 2 diabetes and found that two-thirds of adults reported that transitioning to insulin therapy was less difficult than expected and 21% of adults considered injections to be a major patient fear.