ArticlePrimary health care research & development2021
Migrant Middle Eastern women with gestational diabetes seven years after delivery - positive long-term development of beliefs about health and illness shown in follow-up interviews.
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- What Is My Risk? A Mixed-Methods Systematic Review of Risk Perception for Cardiometabolic Pregnancy Complications and Future Cardiometabolic Disease Development.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2025Pooled it
- Beyond one size fits all: Probing patient choices in gestational diabetes management, from screening to postpartum.Chronic diseases and translational medicine · 2025Review
- Social support as perceived, provided and needed by family-members of migrants with type 2 diabetes - a qualitative study.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Gestational Diabetes and International Migration.Journal of the Endocrine Society · 2022Review
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Abstract
aimNo previous studies have been found focusing on the long-term development of beliefs about health, illness and healthcare in migrant women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). The aim of this study was to explore this and the influence on health-related behaviour (i.e. self-care and care seeking) in migrant women from the Middle East living in Sweden seven years after delivery.
backgroundGDM is increasing, particularly in migrant women. The risk of adverse outcomes of GDM for health can be improved by interventions reducing blood glucose and lifestyle modifications which medicalise the woman's pregnancy due to intensive follow-up and demanding self-care. The reactions might have an enduring impact on the women's long-term psychological and physical health and adoption of preventive health behaviours.
methodQualitative exploratory study. Semi-structured follow-up interviews 7 years after delivery with women previously interviewed in gestational weeks 34-38 and 3 and 14 months after delivery. Data analysed with qualitative content analysis.
findingsHealth meant freedom from illness, feeling well and living long to be able to care for the children. The present situation was described either positively, changing to a healthier lifestyle, or negatively, with worries about being affected by type 2 diabetes. Beliefs changed among the majority of women, leading to a healthier lifestyle, and they looked positively back at the time when diagnosed and their reactions to it. With few exceptions, they were confident of being aware of future health risks and felt responsible for their own and their children's health/lifestyle. None except those diagnosed with type 2 diabetes had been in contact with healthcare since the last follow-up a year after delivery. Yet, they still would like and need a healthcare model delivering more information, particularly on developing a healthy lifestyle for children, and with regular check-ups also after the first year after delivery.
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