Abstract

ASSESSMENT OF BARRIERS IN INSULIN THERAPY AND QUALITY OF LIFE IN DIABETIC PATIENTS

Aiswarya Kakkuzhiyil*

ABSTRACT

As a chronic disorder diabetes mellitus is a fast growing global problem with several complications. It is necessary to control blood sugar within a normal level by providing good therapeutic awareness regarding insulin therapy. Inappropriate use and lack of knowledge about insulin therapy may leads to several barriers to initiate insulin and also cause preventable complications. The poor adherence of a patient may contributed by patients misbelieves, hypoglycaemia, injection phobia, social embarrassment. Insulin therapy is the main stay of diabetes management. But many diabetic patients do not receive insulin therapy in a timely manner because of a negative appraisal of this treatment option. The importance of assessing quality of life is to have objective evaluations of how much the disease influences patient‟s life and how patient cope-up with it.

Keywords: Diabetes mellitus, Barriers, Quality of life, Socio-economic status, Impact of patient counselling.