Application of home care platform in follow-up management of patients with gestational diabetes mellitus / 中华护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To construct the diabetic home care platform and to explore its effects in follow-up man agement of patients with gestational diabetes mellitus.Methods The diabetic home care platform contained clientsides for both nurses and patients,who could use the platform via identification and binding technology.Totally 200 patients with gestational diabetes mellitus in outpatient department from November 2015 to December 2016 were recruited using convenience sampling.Patients were divided into the experimental group and the control group with 100 cases in each group based on the voluntary principle.Both groups received routine follow-up management,and the experimental group also used diabetic home care platform management.Results There were no differences in gestational weeks,mode of delivery,postpartum hemorrhage,other complications,fetal intrauterine distress,neonatal hypoglycemia,and deformity between two groups(P＞0.05).Rate of macrosomia in the experimental group was lower than that in the control group(P＜0.05),and rate of breastfeeding was higher than the control group(P＜0.05).The total score of Diabetes Self-Care Activeties-6 and scores of each dimension in the experiential group were higher than those in the control group 8 weeks after intervention(P＜0.001);the total score of Problem Areas in Diabetes Scale and scores of each dimension in the experimental group were lower than those in the control group(P＜0.05).Conclusion Application of diabetic home care platform is helpful for fetal weight control,and can improve rate of breastfeeding,promote women's self-management behavior and emotional disorders.