Gestational Diabetes
Conditions
Brief summary
The purpose of this research study is to find out if watching an educational video about nutrition helps participants learn about how different foods affect their blood sugar and how Gestational Diabetes affects pregnancy.
Detailed description
* Patients diagnosed with gestational diabetes receive standard nutritional counseling at their first high risk clinic visit. All patients agreeing to participate in the study will at this visit fill out a knowledge questionnaire prior to receiving counseling. * Patients will be randomized into standard counseling or standard counseling plus educational video using block randomization that has been integrated into the Redcap Survey. Once the Initial survey is completed the RedCap program will inform the patient whether they are randomized to Video or NO Video. * Patients randomized to Video will watch the video will watch the video on a clinic designated computer. Patients randomized to no Video will not watch a video. * At the next High risk clinic visit one to two weeks later all patients will fill out the same fill out the same questionnaire in addition to the The Problem Areas In Diabetes (PAID) questionaire. * English-speaking patients will view the English version of the video, and Spanish-speaking patients will view the Spanish version of the video in either English or the dubbed Spanish version. * A Spanish version of the patient hand-out will be provided in an amendment, prior to their use with Spanish- speaking patients.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALNutritional Video
A 10 - 15 minute video
Sponsors
Virginia Commonwealth University
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
FEMALE
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Any diagnosis of Diabetes in Pregnancy * Received at least one session of nutritional counseling from the registered dieticians
Exclusion criteria
* Age \< 18 * Patients without diagnosis of diabetes
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Change in nutritional knowledge | Baseline to 1 week | Change in nutritional knowledge as measured by 10-item Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Knowledge Questionnaire, each question answered correctly is counted as one towards total score. Maximum score is 10, minimum score is 0. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Patient Satisfaction with Care | 1 week | Patient satisfaction on a scale of 1 to 5 |
| Problem Areas In Diabetes (PAID) questionnaire Score | 1 week | Respondents are asked to indicate the degree to which each of the items is currently a problem for them, from 0 (not a problem) to 4 (a serious problem). This is a 20 item questionaire and calculates a score of 1-100 |
Countries
United States
Outcome results
None listed