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. 2020 Jul 9;12(2):151-160.
doi: 10.1007/s13340-020-00454-6. eCollection 2021 Apr.

Impact of dietary counseling on the perception of diet in patients with gestational diabetes mellitus

Miyako Kishimoto  1   2 , Ryutaro Kato  3 , Yoko Oshiba  1   4
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Impact of dietary counseling on the perception of diet in patients with gestational diabetes mellitus

Miyako Kishimoto et al. Diabetol Int. .

Abstract

Aims/introduction: Medical nutrition therapy is the cornerstone of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) treatment. Patients with GDM should receive dietary counseling regarding diet and exercise.

Materials and methods: To study patients' perception level of diet and their level of understanding after dietary counseling, we analyzed 225 reports of dietary counseling of patients with GDM prepared by dieticians. We also assessed the patients' level of understanding after dietary counseling by asking questions regarding the counseling content. The answers to the questions were aggregated, and substantially similar answers were grouped and categorized.

Results: The dieticians' suggestions were well understood by the patients. Moreover, the patients also identified their previous incorrect eating habits, such as excessive carbohydrate restriction or inappropriate fruit intake. Although distributed frequent meals were recommended by the dieticians, few patients actually practiced this for various reasons. Some patients were apparently influenced by dietary information from the mass media.

Conclusion: Dietary counseling was regarded as helpful and acceptable to most patients with GDM in our hospital, and many suggestions were recognized as informative for modification of previous dietary habits. By providing the results of the questionnaire survey to the dieticians, they can improve the quality of their counseling, which is expected to result in better individual care of the patients.

Keywords: Dietary counseling; Dietician; Distributed frequent meals; Gestational diabetes mellitus.

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Conflict of interest statement

DisclosureThe authors MK, RK, and YO declare that they have no conflict of interest in this work.

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