[Compliance problems in type I diabetic patients].
Using a newly developed interview concept, 49 type I diabetics were questions about "obstacles to compliance". The patients were asked to identify, in nine different areas of life, any common concrete obstacles to compliance with self-treatment in terms of dietary measures, injections and self monitoring. Emotional barriers and the structuring of everyday activities proved to be of particular importance for compliance with dietary measures, and aspects of the doctor-patient relationship for insulin injection. The results obtained indicate a need both for abandoning the classical term of compliance, and for the use of psychological measures to support the instruction of diabetics.
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