Diabetes mellitus is a disease , due to the deficiency in producing , or
deficiency of insulin function that causes many problems. Insulin dependent
diabetes mellitus ( IDDM ) patients need to inject insulin regularly.
To determine the insulin injection compliance a descriptive observational
study has been performed on the patients who had referred to Hamadan
Diabetic Research Center , thus the role of health attitudes in compliance
was determined.
The studied patients , were 245 persons and they had been covered by
above center . Questionnaire was used in this study .
Finding indicated that 62.05% of them had less than 40 years old
and most of them were female(68.16%). About 73.46% patients had disease
less than 10 years . The majority of them (60.6%) did not have IDDM in their
family. They had taken part in training courses held in this center and they
had perceived the advantages of insulin injection.62.4% of them had good
compliance about insulin injection . The most important barrier in insulin
injection was the high price of this drug and also to provide it. The patients
with IDDM that perceived the seriousness of disease and susceptibility to
having any complication, these two factors had a meaningful relation with
insulin injection compliance. Insulin injection compliance had significant
relation to age , education and marriage . The other demographic
characteristics did not demonstrate the meaningful relation with insulin
injection compliance .
Most of the people had good compliance about insulin injection. This
indicates the role of Diabetes Research Center can be useful because this
center educates the patients about the diabetes complications, and can
help the patients to comply fully with insulin injection.
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