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Identifying postpartum intervention approaches to prevent type 2 diabetes in women with a history of gestational diabetes
BACKGROUND: Women who develop gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) have an increased risk for the development of type 2 diabetes. Despite this "window of opportunity," few intervention studies have targeted postpartum women with a history of GDM. We sought perspectives of women with a histo...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3076295/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21435246 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2393-11-23 |
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author | Nicklas, Jacinda M Zera, Chloe A Seely, Ellen W Abdul-Rahim, Zainab S Rudloff, Noelle D Levkoff, Sue E |
author_facet | Nicklas, Jacinda M Zera, Chloe A Seely, Ellen W Abdul-Rahim, Zainab S Rudloff, Noelle D Levkoff, Sue E |
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description | BACKGROUND: Women who develop gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) have an increased risk for the development of type 2 diabetes. Despite this "window of opportunity," few intervention studies have targeted postpartum women with a history of GDM. We sought perspectives of women with a history of GDM to identify a) barriers and facilitators to healthy lifestyle changes postpartum, and b) specific intervention approaches that would facilitate participation in a postpartum lifestyle intervention program. METHODS: We used mixed methods to gather data from women with a prior history of GDM, including focus groups and informant interviews. Analysis of focus groups relied on grounded theory and used open-coding to categorize data by themes, while frequency distributions were used for the informant interviews. RESULTS: Of 38 women eligible to participate in focus groups, only ten women were able to accommodate their schedules to attend a focus group and 15 completed informant interviews by phone. We analyzed data from 25 women (mean age 35, mean pre-pregnancy BMI 28, 52% Caucasian, 20% African American, 12% Asian, 8% American Indian, 8% refused to specify). Themes from the focus groups included concern about developing type 2 diabetes, barriers to changing diet, and barriers to increasing physical activity. In one focus group, women expressed frustration about feeling judged by their physicians during their GDM pregnancy. Cited barriers to lifestyle change were identified from both methods, and included time and financial constraints, childcare duties, lack of motivation, fatigue, and obstacles at work. Informants suggested facilitators for lifestyle change, including nutrition education, accountability, exercise partners/groups, access to gyms with childcare, and home exercise equipment. All focus group and informant interview participants reported access to the internet, and the majority expressed interest in an intervention program delivered primarily via the internet that would include the opportunity to work with a lifestyle coach. CONCLUSION: Time constraints were a major barrier. Our findings suggest that an internet-based lifestyle intervention program should be tested as a novel approach to prevent type 2 diabetes in postpartum women with a history of GDM. TRIAL REGISTRATION: ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT01102530 |
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spelling | pubmed-30762952011-04-14 Identifying postpartum intervention approaches to prevent type 2 diabetes in women with a history of gestational diabetes Nicklas, Jacinda M Zera, Chloe A Seely, Ellen W Abdul-Rahim, Zainab S Rudloff, Noelle D Levkoff, Sue E BMC Pregnancy Childbirth Research Article BACKGROUND: Women who develop gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) have an increased risk for the development of type 2 diabetes. Despite this "window of opportunity," few intervention studies have targeted postpartum women with a history of GDM. We sought perspectives of women with a history of GDM to identify a) barriers and facilitators to healthy lifestyle changes postpartum, and b) specific intervention approaches that would facilitate participation in a postpartum lifestyle intervention program. METHODS: We used mixed methods to gather data from women with a prior history of GDM, including focus groups and informant interviews. Analysis of focus groups relied on grounded theory and used open-coding to categorize data by themes, while frequency distributions were used for the informant interviews. RESULTS: Of 38 women eligible to participate in focus groups, only ten women were able to accommodate their schedules to attend a focus group and 15 completed informant interviews by phone. We analyzed data from 25 women (mean age 35, mean pre-pregnancy BMI 28, 52% Caucasian, 20% African American, 12% Asian, 8% American Indian, 8% refused to specify). Themes from the focus groups included concern about developing type 2 diabetes, barriers to changing diet, and barriers to increasing physical activity. In one focus group, women expressed frustration about feeling judged by their physicians during their GDM pregnancy. Cited barriers to lifestyle change were identified from both methods, and included time and financial constraints, childcare duties, lack of motivation, fatigue, and obstacles at work. Informants suggested facilitators for lifestyle change, including nutrition education, accountability, exercise partners/groups, access to gyms with childcare, and home exercise equipment. All focus group and informant interview participants reported access to the internet, and the majority expressed interest in an intervention program delivered primarily via the internet that would include the opportunity to work with a lifestyle coach. CONCLUSION: Time constraints were a major barrier. Our findings suggest that an internet-based lifestyle intervention program should be tested as a novel approach to prevent type 2 diabetes in postpartum women with a history of GDM. TRIAL REGISTRATION: ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT01102530 BioMed Central 2011-03-24 /pmc/articles/PMC3076295/ /pubmed/21435246 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2393-11-23 Text en Copyright ©2011 Nicklas et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Nicklas, Jacinda M Zera, Chloe A Seely, Ellen W Abdul-Rahim, Zainab S Rudloff, Noelle D Levkoff, Sue E Identifying postpartum intervention approaches to prevent type 2 diabetes in women with a history of gestational diabetes |
title | Identifying postpartum intervention approaches to prevent type 2 diabetes in women with a history of gestational diabetes |
title_full | Identifying postpartum intervention approaches to prevent type 2 diabetes in women with a history of gestational diabetes |
title_fullStr | Identifying postpartum intervention approaches to prevent type 2 diabetes in women with a history of gestational diabetes |
title_full_unstemmed | Identifying postpartum intervention approaches to prevent type 2 diabetes in women with a history of gestational diabetes |
title_short | Identifying postpartum intervention approaches to prevent type 2 diabetes in women with a history of gestational diabetes |
title_sort | identifying postpartum intervention approaches to prevent type 2 diabetes in women with a history of gestational diabetes |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3076295/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21435246 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2393-11-23 |
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