Table 2.

Patient (n = 530) and physician (n = 964) reported reasons^* for insulin omission/non-adherence^†

Reason	Patients % and rank	Physicians % and rank
Too busy	18.9% 1	41.9% 3
Travelling	16.2% 2	43.6% 2
Skipped meal	15.0% 3	44.8% 1
Stress or emotional problems	11.7% 4	32.2% 5
Embarrassing to inject in public	9.7% 5	36.8% 4
Challenging to take it at the same time everyday	9.4% 6	29.1% 6
Forgot	7.4% 7	2.0% 11
Too many injections	6.0% 8	26.4% 7
Avoid weight gain	4.0% 9	13.4% 9
Regimen is too complicated	3.8% 10	16.8% 8
Injections are painful	2.6% 11	7.8% 10

^*Respondents were asked to select top three reasons (order of reasons randomized, ‘Forgot’ responses volunteered as Other); data are % of respondents choosing a reason as one of the three.

^†Absolute percentages reported for physicians cannot be compared with percentage of patients who report these reasons because physicians report whether this is a reason for the behaviour of their ‘typical patient’ rather than the percentage of their patients for whom this is a reason; rank order of reasons by patients and physicians can be compared.