Background
The prevalence of diabetes in Zimbabwe is 9.7% (International Diabetes Federation, 2015). Prevalence of 8.8% and 6.6% has been reported for diabetes in pregnancy and GDM respectively in studies done in Zimbabwe (Nhidza et al., 2017). Health education was reported in a previous study done in Zimbabwe as one of the facilitators of adherence to diet, physical activity and medications. (Mukona et al., 2017). Purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of an educational intervention on adherence to therapy and perinatal outcomes in pregnant women with diabetes.
Aims
To evaluate the effectiveness of an educational intervention in pregnant women with diabetes on:
Adherence to diet, physical activity and medications
Glycaemic control
Perinatal outcomes occurring from the 20th week of gestation to the 21st day after delivery
METHODS
An RCT conducted on 96 (48 per arm) pregnant women with diabetes in pregnancy at Mbuya Nehanda and Harare maternity hospitals.
Block stratified random sampling based on type of diabetes (type I, type II and GDM) will be done. Educational intevention will be done to the study group. . Structured questionnaires will be used to collect data together with glycated haemoglobin and fasting blood glucose
10 Procedures
Assessing adherence to diet, physical activity and medications, HbA1C, FBG andImplementation of the educational intervention to the study group and perinatal outcomes.
11 Data analysis- STATA version 15.
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