Table 12.

Topics patients cannot remember ever being trained in

Topic	% India (N = 988)	% Row (N = 8790)
Injection sites (e.g., thigh, arm, buttock, abdomen)	37.7	11.6
Skin thickness and appropriate depth of injection	57.2	27.2
Length of needle	57.2	25.6
How to do a skinlift or “pinch up” the skin	43.6	18.2
How long to hold a skinlift or “pinch up”	49.7	25.7
Angle of needle entry	37.9	16.1
How long to keep the needle in the skin after injection	43.5	16.4
Rotating within an injection site	48.7	18.4
Prevention of air bubbles (syringe) or proper priming of pen needle	52.0	19.7
Mixing insulin in a syringe (for syringe users)	53.2	30.3
Re-suspension of cloudy insulin	55.1	25.0
Single use of pen needle/syringe	61.0	19.0
Safe disposal of sharps (pen needles, syringes)	65.3	28.2