Self-care educational guide for mothers with gestational diabetes mellitus: A systematic review on identifying self-care domains, approaches, and their effectiveness.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) is a common form of poor carbohydrate intolerance, prevalent among pregnant women and associated with unhealthy lifestyle behaviors. Given the dearth of information on self-empowerment among mothers with GDM, a self-care health education package needs to be developed to prevent related complications.

Objective

This review aimed to identify self-care approaches, domains, and their effectiveness for a proper self-care educational guide package for women with GDM.

Design

A systematic review using electronic literature databases published between January 2016 and December 2022 was conducted.

Data sources

Web of Science, Scopus, and Ovid databases were used.

Review methods

This review utilized the PICO (Populatio

SUBMITTER: Haron Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10353652 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature