Volume 26, Issue 122, April 2022

Knowledge and practice of family medicine residents towards screening for gestational diabetes and undiagnosed diabetes mellitus in pregnancy, in 1st and 2nd health clusters, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Alanoud Z Alzamil^♦, Fatimah H Alshehri, Malak A Alghamdi, Ahmed T Ahmed

Department of Family and Community Medicine, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

^♦Corresponding author
Alanoud Alzamil, Family Medicine Resident, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

ABSTRACT

Background: We are aiming to assess, compare, and to correlate between the knowledge and practice of family medicine residents towards screening for gestational diabetes and undiagnosed DM in 1st and 2nd health clusters, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Methodology: This is a quantitative analytic cross-sectional study targeting family medicine residents of 1st and 2 nd health clusters, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Data were collected using predesigned validated questionnaire. Results: In this study, we were able to collect 204 responses for our questionnaire divided into two clusters; cluster 1 consisted of 95 participants (46.6%) and cluster 2 consisted of 109 participants (53.4%). 36.3% of the participants reported that they routinely screen any women for diabetes early in pregnancy at their first visit and the most used test was 75 gm Glucose Tolerance Test (32.8%). 85.3% of the total participants would screen all pregnant women at gestational age of 24 – 28 weeks (P=0.243). Conclusion: The study concluded that there was a limited knowledge about screening for undiagnosed diabetes in pregnancy. However, the level of knowledge regarding GDM screening was sufficient.

Keywords: GDM, Undiagnosed diabetes mellitus in pregnancy, Diabetes screening in pregnancy, Family medicine residents, Knowledge, Saudi Arabia

Medical Science, 2022, 26, ms154e2221

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi/v26i122/ms154e2221

Published: 29 April 2022