TITLE:
Intensive Lifestyle Counselling Intervention: Preventing Maternal Risk for Gestational Diabetes Mellitus
AUTHORS:
Noraliza Radzali, Rosnah Sutan
KEYWORDS:
Lifestyle Counselling, GDM, Physical Activity, Dietary Intake, Gestational Weight Gain
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology,
Vol.6 No.5,
April
7,
2016
ABSTRACT: This study is aimed to evaluate the
effectiveness of an intensive lifestyle counselling (ILC) designed to prevent
gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) among high risk mothers. A
quasi-experimental trial was conducted in four selected health clinics (two
clinics for intervention and two clinics for control) in Negeri Sembilan,
Malaysia. Of the 320 subjects recruited, 148 respondents in the intervention group
and 150 respondents in the control group had completed the study (response rate
93.1%). The intervention group was given a routine antenatal care (RC) and a
package of structured ILC sessions on diet, physical activity (PA) and
information on appropriate gestational weight gain (GWG) in five routine
antenatal care visits until 39 weeks’ gestation. The controls received only the
RC. Both groups are comparable for sociodemographic characteristics (p