One-minute mental status examination for category fluency is more useful than mini-mental state examination to evaluate the reliability of insulin self-injection in elderly diabetic patients

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Aims/Introduction: We investigated the factors associated with the reliability of insulin self-injection in elderly diabetic patients receiving insulin therapy. Materials and Methods: We enrolled diabetic patients aged ≥65 years and receiving insulin therapy, and assessed their cognitive function by the mini-mental state examination and 1-min mental status examination for category fluency. We also observed their technique of insulin self-injection, and evaluated whether or not patients were able to inject insulin by themselves according to nine defined details in terms of insulin self-injection. The predictive factors for the reliability of insulin self-injection were determined by univariate and multivariate logistic regression analysis. There were 278 participants (135 males, 143 females) enrolled in the present study. Results: According to multivariate logistic regression analysis, only the 1-min mental status examination score was found to be a significant independent predictor of the reliability of insulin self-injection (odds ratio 0.75; 95% confidence interval 0.62-0.90; P = 0.002). Conclusions: The 1-min mental status examination for category fluency can be considered more useful than mini-mental state examination to evaluate the reliability of insulin self-injection in elderly diabetic patients receiving insulin therapy. © 2013 The Authors. Journal of Diabetes Investigation published by Asian Association for the Study of Diabetes and Wiley Publishing Asia Pty Ltd.

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Yajima, K., Matsushita, T., Sumitomo, H., Sakurai, H., Katayama, T., Kanno, K., … Kitaoka, M. (2014). One-minute mental status examination for category fluency is more useful than mini-mental state examination to evaluate the reliability of insulin self-injection in elderly diabetic patients. Journal of Diabetes Investigation, 5(3), 340–344. https://doi.org/10.1111/jdi.12159

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