Background Pain and fear associated with insulin injections can cause children with type 1
diabetes mellitus to avoid insulin injections and skip doses. Objective To evaluate and …

Background Repeated injections may prevent children from performing insulin
administration (skip dosing) and may cause anxiety. Aims To compare the effect of …

Background The self-care of type 1 diabetes (T1D) includes undergoing procedures with
needles several times daily, which may cause pain and fear. Aims The aim was to identify …

Objective To assess the prevalence of fear of needles and its effect on glycemic control in
children with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) on multiple daily injections (MDI) or …

Purpose To report the prevalence of fear, distress, pain, and level of cooperation with insulin
injections and blood glucose fingersticks in children with newly diagnosed diabetes and …

OBJECTIVE: Discomfort during insulin injection and self-monitoring of blood glucose
(SMBG) is a potential obstacle in diabetes therapy, but its prevalence and extent in relation …

Objectives: To investigate the use of indwelling catheters as injection aids at diabetes onset
to reduce injection pain and pre-injection anxiety. Study design: Forty-one patients aged …

We studied attitudes towards insulin injections, needle‐phobia and the experience of pain
when using syringes, pens, insulin pumps and in‐dwelling subcutaneous catheters …

Pain and fear associated with needle procedures have been found to be more common
among children and adolescents treated for type 1 diabetes (T1D) than among others in …

Most children and adolescents find the pain when injecting insulin quite minimal but still
significantly more painful than a placebo injection. However, injection pain and needle …