Mothers after Gestational Diabetes in Australia (MAGDA)

A six session group behaviour intervention program was run.The first session, an individual session with participant and facilitator, a risk assessment and goal setting session was facilitatored either face to face or over the phone, if difficulties meeting up arose. The individual session took up to an hour to complete. The remaining 5 sessions commenced two weeks after the individual session and were group based, at two week intervals. Topics included: physical activity, fats, fibre, sleep. Each session was run for approximately 2 hours, each with up to 12 participants. The sessions were run by specially trained facilitators who have a health-related background, the intention was to have the same facilitator run all the sessions for the same group, independently as to build a rapport with the participants. Along with the topics listed before each session covered goal setting, motivation and managing setbacks. At three and six months, there was a telephone follow up, maintenance sessions with the same facilitator that took the group sessions. An additional amendment allowed a small group of women in the study (31) to receive a telephone based lifestyle intervention program. These participants had NOT attended the MAGDA face to face group intervention. To differentiate this group the intervention was called TeleMAGDA. The intervention was based on the same topics as the group based MAGDA program but was done over seven, individual, 30-60 minute telephone coaching sessions, again one every 2 weeks. As for MAGDA the phone coach/facilitator was run by specially trained facilitators who had a health-related background, the intention was to have the same facilitator run all the sessions for the same individual.