(Anyone with brilliant ideas on how to motivate people to take better care of themselves can contact Dr. Polonsky’s institute here. Make sure to cc me at amy@diabetesmine.com as well!)
Hmmm, maybe I should contact him. I’ve studied behavior analysis for years on both a theoritical basis and a concrete basis for years.
Between training beagles for dog agility and teaching high school students technology, and between working on myself as a diabetes patient, I’m got a lot of practical work done.
One of the biggest problems with motivating diabetes patients, is that it hard to come up with tangible rewards. Also the “noncompliant” behaviors tend to be self rewarding. It’s always hard to eliminate self rewarding behavior.