Studying the Hurdles of Insulin Prescription (SHIP©): development, scoring and initial validation of a new self-administered questionnaire

Martinez, Luc; Consoli, Silla M; Monnier, Louis; Simon, Dominique; Wong, Olivier; Yomtov, Bernard; Guéron, Béatrice; Benmedjahed, Khadra; Guillemin, Isabelle; Arnould, Benoit

doi:10.1186/1477-7525-5-53

Table 1 Item contents of the SHIP^© questionnaire and Pearson correlation coefficients between items and dimensions performed with cross-sectional populations at baseline for SHIP Oral and SHIP Premix studies. Correlations > 0.40 are in bold

From: Studying the Hurdles of Insulin Prescription (SHIP^©): development, scoring and initial validation of a new self-administered questionnaire

Item contents	SHIP Oral Study (n = 1,478^a)				SHIP Premix Study (n = 1,130^b)
	Missing Data N (%)	Acceptance Motivation	Fears Constraints	Restraints Barriers	Missing Data N (%)	Acceptance Motivation	Fears Constraints	Restraints Barriers
Willingness because of more balanced diabetes	12 (0.80)	0.64	0.20	0.20	21 (1.83)	0.63	0.23	0.13
Happy because of improvement in quality of living	11 (0.74)	0.63	0.23	0.15	20 (1.74)	0.62	0.23	0.06
Favourable because of easiness to use of treatment	14 (0.94)	0.64	0.31	0.27	20 (1.74)	0.68	0.32	0.23
Advantage because of a less restrictive diet	NA^c	0.57	0.12	0.11	20 (1.74)	0.50	0.08	-0.02
Confidence in physicians	23 (1.54)	0.55	0.11	0.24	20 (1.74)	0.56	0.17	0.18
Feeling restricted because of self-surveillance	18 (1.20)	0.23	0.63	0.32	13 (1.13)	0.28	0.67	0.35
Constraint because of dependency, liberty loss	17 (1.14)	0.21	0.63	0.26	22 (1.91)	0.21	0.62	0.30
Upset diabetes is getting worse	15 (1.00)	0.04	0.41	0.21	22 (1.91)	0.07	0.47	0.25
Fear of having more hypoglycaemia crises	15 (1.00)	0.11	0.45	0.37	22 (1.91)	0.08	0.48	0.23
Fear that treatment gets more complicated	15 (1.00)	0.35	0.58	0.41	18 (1.57)	0.38	0.60	0.42
Bothered by being seen while injecting insulin	21 (1.41)	0.24	0.35	0.71	17 (1.48)	0.10	0.30	0.61
Fear that people notice I'm diabetic	16 (1.07)	0.17	0.34	0.57	19 (1.65)	0.08	0.34	0.57
Bothered by skin being marked at injection site	12 (0.80)	0.13	0.29	0.56	14 (1.22)	0.12	0.28	0.47
Stressed because injections can be painful	14 (0.94)	0.24	0.39	0.53	20 (1.74)	0.14	0.35	0.48

^a 1,478 = 1,487-9, due to missing data
^b 1,130 = 1,141-11, due to missing data
^c NA, not assessed

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