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• TITLE: Intensive Lifestyle Counselling Intervention: Preventing Maternal Risk for Gestational Diabetes Mellitus

  AUTHORS: Noraliza Radzali, Rosnah Sutan

  KEYWORDS: Lifestyle Counselling, GDM, Physical Activity, Dietary Intake, Gestational Weight Gain

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vol.6 No.5, April 7, 2016

  ABSTRACT: This study is aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of an intensive lifestyle counselling (ILC) designed to prevent gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) among high risk mothers. A quasi-experimental trial was conducted in four selected health clinics (two clinics for intervention and two clinics for control) in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia. Of the 320 subjects recruited, 148 respondents in the intervention group and 150 respondents in the control group had completed the study (response rate 93.1%). The intervention group was given a routine antenatal care (RC) and a package of structured ILC sessions on diet, physical activity (PA) and information on appropriate gestational weight gain (GWG) in five routine antenatal care visits until 39 weeks’ gestation. The controls received only the RC. Both groups are comparable for sociodemographic characteristics (p