Abstract
Diabetic patients often discontinue to receive treatment because most of them have few subjective symptoms． This study was intended to explore the way to keep patients to receive treatment． Seventy patients who were maintained hemodialysis due to diabetic nephropathy were interviewed for the previous medical treatment which they received and Multidimensional Health Locus of Control Scale (MHLC)，and the personality influencing the compliance to the treatment was examined by using Todai-shiki Egogram (TEG)． Discontinuity of receiving treatment had something to do with the previous treatment which the patients received and their personalities． The percentage of attendance to diabetes mellitus educational course (DM course) at the early stage of the disease in the patients who discontinued to receive treatment was lower than that in the patients who continued to receive treatment because some hospitals had no DM course． MHLC of the subjects showed that diabetic patients generally have a tendency to depend on others． In the analysis of TEG test，male patients who continued to receive treatment showed the flat type (adaptable type)，and male patients who discontinued to receive treatment showed the low FC type (enduring type)． Female patients showed the high NP type (obliging type)． In conclusion，it is important that we provide the patients with many opportunities of DM education，and understand MHLC and the personalities of the patients who can not continue to receive treatment．
