The Effect of Health Behavior Program and Line Application Monitoring to Dietary and Exercise Behavior and the Blood Glucose in Pregnant Women at Risk for Gestational Diabetes Mellitus
Keywords:
Health Behavior Program, Gestational Diabetes Mellitus, Dietary Behavior, Line ApplicationAbstract
The purposes of this quasi-experimental research were to examine the effects of health behavior program and line application monitoring to dietary and exercise behavior and the blood glucose in pregnant women at risk for gestational diabetes mellitus. The sample were women who come for prenatal care or use services at the prenatal care room Surat Thani Hospital and 30 women who were diagnosed with gestational diabetes. The research instrument included health behavior modification and monitoring program with the line application. Data were collected between May-October, 2022 using a personal data questionnaire, a dietary behavior questionnaire, an exercise behavior questionnaire. which Cronbach's alpha coefficients of .86 and .88. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics and dependent t-test statistics.
The results revealed that the experimental group had mean scores of dietary behavior and exercise behavior significantly higher after receiving the health behavior program and line application monitoring respectively (p<.01) and blood glucose level decrease after receiving the health behavior program and line application monitoring respectively (p<.01) Therefore, midwives nurse can use health behavior modification programs and online application monitoring to provide behavior modification to pregnant women with gestational diabetes.
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