RESUMO
Background: the gestational diabetes is a disorder at tolerate of carbohydrates that for the first time has diagnosed in the gestational period. The risk factors that increased conflict mother to gestational diabetes include : age more than 30 years, history of diabetes disease in family hypertension, gravid more than 5, history of abortion or premature birth. The goal of this study is evaluation of knowledge, attitude and function of gestated mother's about gestational diabetes
Material and method: in this study 200 pregnant women who referred to army khanvadeh hospital from 2005 to 2006 have evaluated
Results: %62 of women had moderate knowledge and %77 had positive attitude and%69 had moderate function. Women who used from informative source include book-journal - news paper had better knowledge, attitude and function. Women with gestational age less than 12 weeks, gravid less than 2 and without abortion had better knowledge, attitude and function than others. Knowledge, attitude and function in persons more then 35 years were greater
Conclusion: preparing proper educational project about pregnancy with special note on gestational diabetes for increasing knowledge, attitude and function of gestated mother's, causes decreased high risk pregnancies and promotes the level of healthy mother and birth the safe neonate