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Knowledge on gestational diabetes mellitus and associated factors among pregnant women attending antenatal care clinics of North Shewa zone public hospitals, Oromia region, Central Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND: Globally, the prevalence of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is currently rising. Assessing GDM knowledge and taking various public health actions will help pregnant women know more about the condition, resulting in its prevention. OBJECTIVE: To assess pregnant women’s knowledge of GD...

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Autores principales: Dissassa, Hiwot Dejene, Tufa, Derara Girma, Geleta, Leta Adugna, Dabalo, Yohannes Amsalu, Oyato, Befekadu Tesfaye
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10533783/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37751960
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-073339
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author Dissassa, Hiwot Dejene
Tufa, Derara Girma
Geleta, Leta Adugna
Dabalo, Yohannes Amsalu
Oyato, Befekadu Tesfaye
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Tufa, Derara Girma
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Dabalo, Yohannes Amsalu
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description BACKGROUND: Globally, the prevalence of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is currently rising. Assessing GDM knowledge and taking various public health actions will help pregnant women know more about the condition, resulting in its prevention. OBJECTIVE: To assess pregnant women’s knowledge of GDM and associated factors at antenatal care clinics of public hospitals in the North Shewa zone, Oromia region, Central Ethiopia. DESIGN: Cross-sectional study. SETTING: Five public hospitals of North Shewa zone, Oromia regional state, Central Ethiopia. PARTICIPANTS: A total of 417 pregnant women. METHODS: A face-to-face interview was conducted. A 13-items tool was used to measure GDM knowledge. Multivariable binary logistic regression was fitted to identify factors associated with the knowledge of GDM. The adjusted OR (AOR) with 95% CI and a p<0.05 was used to determine statistical significance. RESULTS: Overall, 48% (95% CI 43.4% to 52.8%) of pregnant women had sufficient knowledge about GDM. The level of sufficient knowledge for GDM risk factors, screening/treatment and its consequences were 48%, 54.4% and 99%, respectively. Age group 15–24 years (AOR 3.49, 95% CI 1.05 to 11.59), attending secondary and above education (AOR 4.27, 95% CI 1.29 to 14.070, women whose partners attended primary school (AOR 3.83, 95% CI 1.36 to 10.78), history of GDM (AOR 3.36, 95% CI 1.68 to 6.71), history of hypertension (AOR 2.42, 95% CI 1.21 to 4.84), receiving preconception care (AOR 3.02, 95% CI 1.74 to 5.22) and being multigravida (AOR 3.19, 95% CI 1.52 to 6.67) were factors significantly associated with sufficient knowledge about GDM. CONCLUSION: Overall, more than half of pregnant women have insufficient knowledge about GDM. Significant association between GDM knowledge and women’s age, women’s and partners’ educational status, preconception care, history of GDM and hypertension, and the number of pregnancies were detected. Therefore, to increase pregnant women’s GDM knowledge, health education programmes in the community and healthcare facilities should target the identified factors.
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spelling pubmed-105337832023-09-29 Knowledge on gestational diabetes mellitus and associated factors among pregnant women attending antenatal care clinics of North Shewa zone public hospitals, Oromia region, Central Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study Dissassa, Hiwot Dejene Tufa, Derara Girma Geleta, Leta Adugna Dabalo, Yohannes Amsalu Oyato, Befekadu Tesfaye BMJ Open Diabetes and Endocrinology BACKGROUND: Globally, the prevalence of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is currently rising. Assessing GDM knowledge and taking various public health actions will help pregnant women know more about the condition, resulting in its prevention. OBJECTIVE: To assess pregnant women’s knowledge of GDM and associated factors at antenatal care clinics of public hospitals in the North Shewa zone, Oromia region, Central Ethiopia. DESIGN: Cross-sectional study. SETTING: Five public hospitals of North Shewa zone, Oromia regional state, Central Ethiopia. PARTICIPANTS: A total of 417 pregnant women. METHODS: A face-to-face interview was conducted. A 13-items tool was used to measure GDM knowledge. Multivariable binary logistic regression was fitted to identify factors associated with the knowledge of GDM. The adjusted OR (AOR) with 95% CI and a p<0.05 was used to determine statistical significance. RESULTS: Overall, 48% (95% CI 43.4% to 52.8%) of pregnant women had sufficient knowledge about GDM. The level of sufficient knowledge for GDM risk factors, screening/treatment and its consequences were 48%, 54.4% and 99%, respectively. Age group 15–24 years (AOR 3.49, 95% CI 1.05 to 11.59), attending secondary and above education (AOR 4.27, 95% CI 1.29 to 14.070, women whose partners attended primary school (AOR 3.83, 95% CI 1.36 to 10.78), history of GDM (AOR 3.36, 95% CI 1.68 to 6.71), history of hypertension (AOR 2.42, 95% CI 1.21 to 4.84), receiving preconception care (AOR 3.02, 95% CI 1.74 to 5.22) and being multigravida (AOR 3.19, 95% CI 1.52 to 6.67) were factors significantly associated with sufficient knowledge about GDM. CONCLUSION: Overall, more than half of pregnant women have insufficient knowledge about GDM. Significant association between GDM knowledge and women’s age, women’s and partners’ educational status, preconception care, history of GDM and hypertension, and the number of pregnancies were detected. Therefore, to increase pregnant women’s GDM knowledge, health education programmes in the community and healthcare facilities should target the identified factors. BMJ Publishing Group 2023-09-26 /pmc/articles/PMC10533783/ /pubmed/37751960 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-073339 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2023. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) .
spellingShingle Diabetes and Endocrinology
Dissassa, Hiwot Dejene
Tufa, Derara Girma
Geleta, Leta Adugna
Dabalo, Yohannes Amsalu
Oyato, Befekadu Tesfaye
Knowledge on gestational diabetes mellitus and associated factors among pregnant women attending antenatal care clinics of North Shewa zone public hospitals, Oromia region, Central Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study
title Knowledge on gestational diabetes mellitus and associated factors among pregnant women attending antenatal care clinics of North Shewa zone public hospitals, Oromia region, Central Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study
title_full Knowledge on gestational diabetes mellitus and associated factors among pregnant women attending antenatal care clinics of North Shewa zone public hospitals, Oromia region, Central Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study
title_fullStr Knowledge on gestational diabetes mellitus and associated factors among pregnant women attending antenatal care clinics of North Shewa zone public hospitals, Oromia region, Central Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study
title_full_unstemmed Knowledge on gestational diabetes mellitus and associated factors among pregnant women attending antenatal care clinics of North Shewa zone public hospitals, Oromia region, Central Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study
title_short Knowledge on gestational diabetes mellitus and associated factors among pregnant women attending antenatal care clinics of North Shewa zone public hospitals, Oromia region, Central Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study
title_sort knowledge on gestational diabetes mellitus and associated factors among pregnant women attending antenatal care clinics of north shewa zone public hospitals, oromia region, central ethiopia: a cross-sectional study
topic Diabetes and Endocrinology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10533783/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37751960
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-073339
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