Factors affecting the fear of insulin injection and finger punching in individuals diagnosed with diabetes

Research; In order to determine the factors affecting the fear of insulin injection and finger punching of individuals with diabetes; The study was conducted as a cross-sectional, relation-seeking and descriptive study. The study was conducted on 122 patients who had just started insulin therapy. Data were obtained through The Descriptive Patient Form, The Diabetic Self-Injection and Fear of Testing Questionnaire Form (D-FISQ). Descriptive statistical methods used in the evaluation of data are Mann-Whitney U test, Kruskal-Wallis H test and Spearman correlation. The factors affecting the scale scores were evaluated with multiple linearregression analysis. Value of p<0.05 was considered statistically significant.Study group; 56.6% of the patients are male patients. Fear of self-injection (injection), fear of self-testing (test) and total fear (total) scores of women were found to be statistically higher than men (p<0.001). Age, gender, and pain experience were important variables that affected patients' fear of injections. With a one-unit increase in age, the injection fear score decreased by 0.13 points, and the mean injection fear score of women was 2.11 points higher than that of men. It was determined that the patient's age, gender, living with whom and blood donation history were important variables affecting the fear of self-testing. It is seen that the fear test score decreases by 0.18 points with an increase in age by one unit, and the fear test scores of women compared to men are on average 3,358 points, the fear test scores of those living alone are 4,711 points compared to those living with family members, and the fear test scores of those who do not donate blood are 2,572 compared to those who donate blood score, it was determined that those with more pain experience were 3,156 points higher on average than those with less fear of injection.As a result, it was seen that the most important factors affecting the fear of insulin injection and finger punching in individuals with diabetes were age, gender, pain experience, living with whom and blood donation history. Keywords: Diabetes, Fear of injection, İnsulin injection, Needle phobia.