Table 4.
Comparison of patient and physician belief and behaviour by country
| Non-adherence** | Dissatisfaction | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Physician* | Physician* | |||||||||||
| Country | All patients*†% and rank | Specialist*% and rank | Primary care % and rank | All patients*†% and rank | Specialist*% and rank | Primary care % and rank | ||||||
| China | 33.3% | 5 | 80.0% | 4 | 68.0% | 4 | 7.3%§¶ | 5 | 28.0% | 2 | 18.0% | 4 |
| France | 19.4% | 8 | 70.0% | 6 | 52.0%‡ | 7 | 3.1%§¶ | 7 | 16.0% | 6 | 18.0% | 5 |
| Germany | 39.8% | 4 | 96.0% | 1 | 86.0%‡ | 2 | 2.1%§¶ | 8 | 8.0% | 7 | 26.0%‡ | 2 |
| Japan | 43.8% | 1 | 74.0% | 5 | 58.0%‡ | 6 | 21.5%¶ | 2 | 32.0% | 1 | 36.0% | 1 |
| Spain | 22.5% | 7 | 56.0% | 7 | 40.0%‡ | 8 | 9.9% | 3 | 12.0% | 3 | 14.0% | 6 |
| Turkey | 24.1% | 6 | 58.0% | 8 | 64.0% | 5 | 22.5%§¶ | 1 | 6.0% | 8 | 10.0% | 8 |
| UK | 41.4% | 3 | 96.0% | 1 | 78.0%‡ | 3 | 4.7%§¶ | 6 | 20.0% | 5 | 22.0% | 3 |
| USA | 41.9% | 2 | 90.0% | 3 | 94.0% | 1 | 8.4% | 4 | 12.0% | 4 | 12.0% | 7 |
| Total | 33.2% | 77.5% | 67.5%‡ | 10.0%§¶ | 17.0% | 19.5% | ||||||
Responses in this study populations differ significantly by country (P < 0.05).
No significant differences between patients with Type 1 diabetes and those with Type 2 diabetes.
Responses for specialist and primary care physicians differ significantly (P < 0.05).
Responses for patients and specialist physicians differ significantly (P < 0.05).
Responses for patients and primary care physicians differ significantly (P < 0.05).
For non-adherence, absolute percentages reported for physicians cannot be compared with percentage of patients who report insulin non-adherence because physicians report whether ‘any of your typical patients fail to take their insulin as prescribed’ rather than the percentage of their patients who have missed their dose or fail to take their insulin exactly as prescribed; rank order of countries for patients and physicians can be compared.