Because the blogger at Living With Diabetes always writes with authenticity and thoughtfulness, I find her posts enlightening even when I intuitively disagree with her conclusions - or perhaps especially when I intuitively disagree with her conclusions.
She has a written a series of a half-dozen or so posts dealing specifically with adherence, prefaced with this explanation:
After watching DLife, reading Ground Rounds and lots of other articles I realize that many people do not get why patient compliance is hard. Since I am your average Type 2 patient, though a bit more motiviated, I think it will help everyone understand the whole mechanism, if I write on patient compliance.
These posts provide useful insights into a patient’s perspective on compliance that are not often available to a clinician during a treatment session. They can be found at
Living With Diabetes On Compliance
Update
Noncompliance and A Decision Not To Follow A Treatment Recommendation Are Not Identical