Determination of attitude and knowledge of type 2 diabetic patients towards insulin therapy in northern cyprus

Objective: to determine the attitude and knowledge of type-2 diabetics related to insulin therapy. methods: the descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted from january to march 2014 at the dr. burhan nalbantoglu public hospital,nicosia in the turkish republic of northern cyprus,and comprised patients with type-2 diabetes. the likert scale was used to score participants' response to questions using the following scoring system: 0 (disagree),1 (neutral) and 2 (agree). the minimum scoring value for all the questions combined was 0 whereas the maximum scoring value was 50. patients' attitudes were classified as either high,medium or low based on scores between 0-16,17-33 and 34-50,respectively. spss 16 was used for data analysis. results: of the 271 participants,165(60.9%) were female and 106(39.1%) male. the overall mean age was 60.3±32.4 years. moreover,136(50.3%) participants had a medium attitude and knowledge score towards insulin therapy. men scored significantly better than females (p<0.05). only 25(9.2%) participants had a high score towards insulin therapy. conclusion: the participants were found to have an inadequate attitude and knowledge response to insulin therapy. © 2017,pakistan medical association. all rights reserved.