Background and Aims

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 20^th week of gestation to the 21^st day after delivery

Methods

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.

Results

No results yet. Data collection has not started

Conclusions

Not concluded yet