Navigating Diabetes: Are Postpartum Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) Moms Aware of Their Risk?

Sunday, June 14, 2015

Title: Navigating Diabetes: Are Postpartum Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) Moms Aware of Their Risk?

Promenade Ballroom (Long Beach Convention Center)
Jocelyn Oliveros, MA, BSN, RN, RNC-MNN , Mother Baby Unit, Torrance Memorial Medical Center, Torrance, CA
Donna Yukihiro, MN, RNC-OB, CLE , Torrance Memorial Medical Center, Torrance, CA
Pamela M. Segura, BSN, RNC-MNN, CLEC , Mother Baby Unit, Torrance Memorial Medical Center, Torrance, CA
Linda M. Lillington, DNSc., RN , Clinical Education, Torrance Memorial Medical Center, Torrance, CA

Discipline: Childbearing (CB), Women’s Health (WH)

Learning Objectives:
  • Provide an overview of gestational diabetes and discuss the steps involved in designing and conducting a research study to identify risk perceptions for diabetes among postpartum women with a recent history of gestational diabetes.
  • Describe the diabetes risk perceptions and knowledge deficits of postpartum women with a recent history of gestational diabetes.
  • Identify opportunities for tailoring diabetes prevention education programs to meet the needs of postpartum women with a recent history of gestational diabetes.

    • Submission Description:
    The purpose of this presentation is to describe the development, implementation and results from a research study designed to identify the knowledge deficits and risk perceptions of postpartum women with a history of gestational diabetes mellitus regarding developing diabetes in the future. Implications for practice change will be discussed and opportunities for tailoring patient education materials will be presented.

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