NCT05566912

Practices Made by Patients to Avoid Insulin Injection Pain

AVOIDING PAIN CAUSED BY INSULIN INJECTION Patients Using Insulin With Diabetes Seek For Painless Injection

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 399 (actual)
• Sponsor: Selcuk University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Abstract Objective: This study was conducted to determine the knowledge levels of DM patients about the disease and insulin use, and their practices to avoid insulin injection pain. Methods: Data were collected from 399 patients who administered insulin injections in the study. Patient identification form, disease and treatment compliance form, Morisky-8 Treatment Adherence Scale (MMAS-8), and Visual Analog Scale were used for data collection. The data were collected by the same researcher by face-to-face interview technique.

Detailed description

The face-to-face interview technique was applied to all patients who met the inclusion criteria and accepted to participate in the study, in the waiting area of the internal medicine outpatient clinic. Data were collected by the same researcher. Questionnaire forms were filled in the form of questions and answers in 10-15 minutes.

Conditions

• Diabetes Mellitus

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	filling out a survey	This research is a descriptive study

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-10-15
• Primary completion: 2022-01-15
• Completion: 2022-04-15
• First posted: 2022-10-05
• Last updated: 2022-10-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)