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Why some pregnant women refuse glucose challenge test? Turkish pregnant women’s perspectives for gestational diabetes mellitus screening

OBJECTIVE: Diabetes in pregnancy is associated with several adverse outcomes for both mother and baby. Awareness is the first step toward identifying pregnant women with diabetes. The purpose of this study was to assess Turkish pregnant women’s opinion and practice about 50-g glucose challenge test...

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Autores principales: Hocaoglu, Meryem, Turgut, Abdulkadir, Guzin, Kadir, Yardimci, Oguz Devrim, Gunay, Taner, Bor, Ergul Demircivi, Akdeniz, Esra, Karateke, Ates
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Publicado: Kare Publishing 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6526983/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31180376
http://dx.doi.org/10.14744/nci.2018.37167
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author Hocaoglu, Meryem
Turgut, Abdulkadir
Guzin, Kadir
Yardimci, Oguz Devrim
Gunay, Taner
Bor, Ergul Demircivi
Akdeniz, Esra
Karateke, Ates
author_facet Hocaoglu, Meryem
Turgut, Abdulkadir
Guzin, Kadir
Yardimci, Oguz Devrim
Gunay, Taner
Bor, Ergul Demircivi
Akdeniz, Esra
Karateke, Ates
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description OBJECTIVE: Diabetes in pregnancy is associated with several adverse outcomes for both mother and baby. Awareness is the first step toward identifying pregnant women with diabetes. The purpose of this study was to assess Turkish pregnant women’s opinion and practice about 50-g glucose challenge test (GCT) and to assess the reasons why some of them refuse the test. METHODS: This study was conducted on 312 patients at any age and gestational week in Istanbul, Turkey, by a personal interview using self-created questionnaire. Women were asked about their opinion and practice about 50-g GCT. RESULTS: Among women who were ≤28 weeks of gestation, 42.5% (n=82/193) exhibited their desire to have a GCT in their ongoing pregnancy, 40.9% (n=79/193) pointed out their reluctance, and 16.6% (n=32/193) indicated that they had no opinion about the subject. Women who were ≤28 weeks of gestation and did not want to have GCT, were asked to explain the reasons of their reluctance. The most frequently indicated reason was the belief that GCT is harmful for their babies and themselves (n=62/79, 78.5%). Of the women who were >28 weeks of gestation, 37.8% (n=45/119) had GCT in the ongoing pregnancy, while 62.2% (n=74/119) did not have GCT. The most frequently indicated reason why women did not have a GCT was the belief that GCT is harmful for themselves and the baby (n=37/74, 50%). CONCLUSION: This study exposes an important problem - misinformation about 50-g GCT - that carries a dangerous potential for missing the diagnosis of gestational diabetes. Study findings put forth the need for raising awareness among pregnant women and training health-care professionals about the subject.
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spelling pubmed-65269832019-06-06 Why some pregnant women refuse glucose challenge test? Turkish pregnant women’s perspectives for gestational diabetes mellitus screening Hocaoglu, Meryem Turgut, Abdulkadir Guzin, Kadir Yardimci, Oguz Devrim Gunay, Taner Bor, Ergul Demircivi Akdeniz, Esra Karateke, Ates North Clin Istanb Original Article OBJECTIVE: Diabetes in pregnancy is associated with several adverse outcomes for both mother and baby. Awareness is the first step toward identifying pregnant women with diabetes. The purpose of this study was to assess Turkish pregnant women’s opinion and practice about 50-g glucose challenge test (GCT) and to assess the reasons why some of them refuse the test. METHODS: This study was conducted on 312 patients at any age and gestational week in Istanbul, Turkey, by a personal interview using self-created questionnaire. Women were asked about their opinion and practice about 50-g GCT. RESULTS: Among women who were ≤28 weeks of gestation, 42.5% (n=82/193) exhibited their desire to have a GCT in their ongoing pregnancy, 40.9% (n=79/193) pointed out their reluctance, and 16.6% (n=32/193) indicated that they had no opinion about the subject. Women who were ≤28 weeks of gestation and did not want to have GCT, were asked to explain the reasons of their reluctance. The most frequently indicated reason was the belief that GCT is harmful for their babies and themselves (n=62/79, 78.5%). Of the women who were >28 weeks of gestation, 37.8% (n=45/119) had GCT in the ongoing pregnancy, while 62.2% (n=74/119) did not have GCT. The most frequently indicated reason why women did not have a GCT was the belief that GCT is harmful for themselves and the baby (n=37/74, 50%). CONCLUSION: This study exposes an important problem - misinformation about 50-g GCT - that carries a dangerous potential for missing the diagnosis of gestational diabetes. Study findings put forth the need for raising awareness among pregnant women and training health-care professionals about the subject. Kare Publishing 2018-08-07 /pmc/articles/PMC6526983/ /pubmed/31180376 http://dx.doi.org/10.14744/nci.2018.37167 Text en Copyright: © 2019 by Istanbul Northern Anatolian Association of Public Hospitals http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
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Hocaoglu, Meryem
Turgut, Abdulkadir
Guzin, Kadir
Yardimci, Oguz Devrim
Gunay, Taner
Bor, Ergul Demircivi
Akdeniz, Esra
Karateke, Ates
Why some pregnant women refuse glucose challenge test? Turkish pregnant women’s perspectives for gestational diabetes mellitus screening
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title_full Why some pregnant women refuse glucose challenge test? Turkish pregnant women’s perspectives for gestational diabetes mellitus screening
title_fullStr Why some pregnant women refuse glucose challenge test? Turkish pregnant women’s perspectives for gestational diabetes mellitus screening
title_full_unstemmed Why some pregnant women refuse glucose challenge test? Turkish pregnant women’s perspectives for gestational diabetes mellitus screening
title_short Why some pregnant women refuse glucose challenge test? Turkish pregnant women’s perspectives for gestational diabetes mellitus screening
title_sort why some pregnant women refuse glucose challenge test? turkish pregnant women’s perspectives for gestational diabetes mellitus screening
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6526983/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31180376
http://dx.doi.org/10.14744/nci.2018.37167
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