Vol. 7, Issue 3, Part A (2024)
Knowledge of pregnant women about gestational diabetes and it is effect on both mother and baby in a sample from primary health care centers in Al-Rissafa Health Director - Baghdad
Author(s):
Maysarah Mahmoud Ali Al-Dhefeeri and Ban Abdul-Ridha Salman Al-Hashimi
Abstract:
Background: Gestational diabetes is one type of diabetes with first onset or recognition during pregnancy. However, in most cases, gestational diabetes develops due to an inability to increase insulin secretion adequately to compensate for pregnancy-induced insulin resistance, and most women can return to normal glucose tolerance immediately after pregnancy, it can affect immediate and long term health of both mother and baby.
Objectives: To assess the knowledge of pregnant women about gestational diabetes including risk factors and complications, and to determine socio demographic factors that affect the knowledge of the pregnant women.
Patients and Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted in 16 primary health care centers that belongs to 7 districts in Baghdad Al-Russafa health directorate from the 10th of January 2023 to the 10th of May 2023, data collected using applied 4 sections containing questionnaire by direct interview with 150 pregnant women those attend to the primary health care centers whom age between 18-45 years old.
Results: In this study the result was poor about knowledge of gestational diabetes among pregnant women, that include there knowledge about gestational diabetes and its risk factors (82.0%), complications on baby (56.7%), complications on mother (74.7%), diagnosis and management (30.7%). There was statistically significant association between participants who were illiteracy, student, parity ≥5, and first trimester and poor knowledge about gestational diabetes mellitus.
Conclusions: More than half of participants had poor knowledge about gestational diabetes mellitus, poor score knowledge associated with illiteracy, student, parity ≥5, and first trimester. Additional effort should be made to increase awareness of pregnant women about gestational diabetes mellitus and encourage the regular visits of pregnant women for antenatal care (ANC) during pregnancy to educate them and how they can prevent it and do screening test for gestational diabetes mellitus.
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How to cite this article:
Maysarah Mahmoud Ali Al-Dhefeeri and Ban Abdul-Ridha Salman Al-Hashimi. Knowledge of pregnant women about gestational diabetes and it is effect on both mother and baby in a sample from primary health care centers in Al-Rissafa Health Director - Baghdad. Int. J. Adv. Community Med. 2024;7(3):43-47. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33545/comed.2024.v7.i3a.324
