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.