How well are pregnant women in Croatia informed about the oral glucose tolerance test?

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Biochemia Medica, Vol. 25 No. 2, 2015.

Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.11613/BM.2015.023

How well are pregnant women in Croatia informed about the oral glucose tolerance test?

Patricija Bankovic Radovanovic orcid.org/0000-0002-3510-1974 ; Department of transfusion medicine, General hospital Pula, Croatia
Marija Kocijancic ; Medical biochemistry laboratory of Primorsko-goranska county health care Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia

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Bankovic Radovanovic, P. & Kocijancic, M. (2015). How well are pregnant women in Croatia informed about the oral glucose tolerance test?. Biochemia Medica, 25 (2), 230-236. https://doi.org/10.11613/BM.2015.023

MLA 8th Edition

Bankovic Radovanovic, Patricija and Marija Kocijancic. "How well are pregnant women in Croatia informed about the oral glucose tolerance test?." Biochemia Medica, vol. 25, no. 2, 2015, pp. 230-236. https://doi.org/10.11613/BM.2015.023. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.

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Bankovic Radovanovic, Patricija and Marija Kocijancic. "How well are pregnant women in Croatia informed about the oral glucose tolerance test?." Biochemia Medica 25, no. 2 (2015): 230-236. https://doi.org/10.11613/BM.2015.023

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Bankovic Radovanovic, P., and Kocijancic, M. (2015). 'How well are pregnant women in Croatia informed about the oral glucose tolerance test?', Biochemia Medica, 25(2), pp. 230-236. https://doi.org/10.11613/BM.2015.023

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Bankovic Radovanovic P, Kocijancic M. How well are pregnant women in Croatia informed about the oral glucose tolerance test?. Biochemia Medica [Internet]. 2015 [cited 2024 December 22];25(2):230-236. https://doi.org/10.11613/BM.2015.023

IEEE

P. Bankovic Radovanovic and M. Kocijancic, "How well are pregnant women in Croatia informed about the oral glucose tolerance test?", Biochemia Medica, vol.25, no. 2, pp. 230-236, 2015. [Online]. https://doi.org/10.11613/BM.2015.023

Abstract

Introduction: Preanalytical errors still constitute the largest source of errors in laboratory work. Proper patient preparation and patient’s knowledge about a particular procedure affects its accuracy and reliability. We hypothesized that most of pregnant women are not well enough informed about the proper procedure for the OGTT. The aims of this study were to investigate: (i) how well pregnant women are informed about the OGTT; (ii) the most common way to inform pregnant women about OGTT and (iii) whether pregnant women’s level of knowledge about the OGTT differ regarding source of information.
Materials and methods: The anonymous questionnaire was conducted across the country in 23 Croatian primary and secondary healthcare centres. The questionnaire contained 9 questions on certain demographic data and familiarity with OGTT procedure. All 343 participants filled the questionnaire before the first blood draw.
Results: 42% of the participants demonstrated high and 38% adequate level of knowledge about the OGTT procedure. Majority of participants were informed about the procedure by gynaecologist (56%). The level of knowledge differed among participants with different sources of information (P = 0.030). Further analysis showed that the level of knowledge was lower in pregnant women having received information from their gynaecologist compared to pregnant women who received information from the laboratory staff.
Conclusions: In general, pregnant women are familiar with OGTT procedure, main source of information about the OGTT procedure is their gynaecologist, but the level of knowledge was higher in women who received information about the OGTT procedure from the laboratory staff.

Keywords

preanalytical phase; oral glucose tolerance test; survey; patient education; gestational diabetes

Hrčak ID:

139808

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/139808

Publication date:

15.6.2015.

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