Barriers Affecting Utilization of Postpartum Glucose Tolerance Screening Test among Gestational Diabetic Women | ||
| Egyptian Journal of Health Care | ||
| Article 131, Volume 13, Issue 1, March 2022, Pages 1934-1953 PDF (1.46 M) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejhc.2022.249395 | ||
| Author | ||
| Heba Mahmoud Mohammed | ||
| Lecturer of Maternal & Neonatal Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Ain Shams University, Egypt. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background:Severalprofessional societies and organizations around the world recommend postpartum glucose tolerance testing in women with a history of GDMto reduce the risk of gestational diabetes.Aim & design: A descriptivestudy design was conducted aiming to assess the barriers affecting utilization of postpartumglucose tolerance screening test among gestational diabetic women.Sample: a purposive sample of 486 pregnant women was chosen for this study.Setting:at the postpartum ward of Ain Shams Maternity Hospital. Tools: the study utilized a structured interviewing questionnaire named "mother’s knowledge regarding postpartum glucose tolerance screening test and barriers affecting their utilization with post-partum glucose test".Results: It was discovered that 59.6% of the samples tested had an incorrect knowledge of postpartum glucose tolerance screening test. Furthermore, 75.1% of the women in the study did not utilize postpartum glucose tolerance screening test. Thus, health team barriers accounted 78.6% of women, followed by women’s barriers which accounted for 65.0% of them as barriers affecting utilization of postpartum glucose tolerance test.Conclusion: more than half of studied sample have incorrect overall knowledge of PPGS. Most of studied sample did not utilize PPGS andmore than three-quarters of the studied sample reported “health team factor” as the most main barrier preventing them to utilize the screening test and a statistically significant relationship was observed between the utilization of the studied sample and the total factors of PPGS affecting their utilization. Recommendations: Design and implement an educational program for women with gestational diabetes to encourage them to participate in postpartum glucose tolerance screening test. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Gestational diabetes; glucose tolerance screening test | ||
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