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Drivers for the use of more convenient injection devices

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charleshopkins

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Hello,
My name is Charles Hopkins. I am a student at the University of Cambridge UK, studying for an MPhil in Bioscience Enterprise. I am currently doing a research project entitled “Drivers for the use of more convenient injection technologies”. The aim of my project is to understand regional variations in the usage of insulin injection devices across the UK, USA, Spain and Germany, with a view to changing the face of insulin treatment worldwide. Aside from economic issues I would like to understand diabetic patient preferences and thus better identify patient needs. If you could take a few moments to fill in my quick survey
(http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/injectabl ... preference)

your help would be much appreciated.
Kind regards.
Charlie Hopkins
Master's in Bioscience Enterprise 2009/10
Cambridge University
Email – [email protected]
 
There's at least one reason i can't fll out your questionnaire, and that is i use two different devices, meant for two different reasons.

Many type 1 diabetics use two different types of insulin, one every 12 or 24 hours, and one whenever they eat. The one that i use when i eat has different needs to the one every 24 hrs.
 
Thanks for the response, in the survey you can tick more than one box for device type and just give the device names in the box provided too. The latter aspects of the survey are designed to be reasonably generic so that even though 2 different devices may have different needs for you it should still be possible to fill out. If not please just fill in for one of your devices. There is also a comment box available so if you have different needs for different devices please tell me about it in the text box.
Kind regards
Charlie
 
Just filled it in. If it helps at all, I can't think of anything that could be improved with the NovoNordisk pens, expect that the disposable ones are brightly coloured so not very discrete, and there is no way of telling which insulin is in a reusable pen without taking the lid off (they do come in 2 colours though, so you could just remember which insulin you put in which pen!).
 
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