Gestational Diabetes and Perinatal Depression: an Intervention Program

Summary

Background: The gestational diabetes mellitus and perinatal depression are both global public health issues with high prevalence. Non-perinatal diabetes mellitus and depression are confirmed to have reciprocal influence, which is bidirectional relationship. However, there are still no any confirmations of relationship in the perinatal period. The reason could be that these kinds of studies mostly had been done for postpartum depression, they had rarely been discussed with a clearly sequential influence between gestational diabetes mellitus and perinatal depression. Additionally, there have not been so many Asian countries which been done this kind of studies, therefore, this study will focus on the relationship of gestational diabetes mellitus and perinatal depression.

Purpose: This study will discuss the bidirectional relationship of gestational diabetes mellitus and perinatal depression. In the other words, the prenatal depression influences on gestational diabetes mellitus, and vice versa. Those changeable factors, such as social support, health behavior, prenatal body index, weight gain during pregnancy, perinatal complications…etc, will be tested for whether they could be regulators or not between the gestational diabetes mellitus and perinatal depression.Afterwards, a part of participants with diagnosis of gestational diabetes mellitus will receive the intervention of health education to influence the health behavior, then depression and other obstetrics and gynecological results will be tested for effects.

Conditions

• Gestational Diabetes Mellitus
• Postpartum Depression
• Perinatal Depression

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Clips Intervention

A website of health education of gestational diabetes mellitus with several short clips of health education (maternity management/counseling, healthy lifestyles, partner support...etc) for participants and their partners will be given right after the questionnaire of 22nd week of pregnancy received from the participants and their partners. There are pretest and posttest questions on the structured questionnaires of 22nd week and 35th week of pregnancy and 3rd month after delivery.

DEVICE

Structured Questionnaire Only

A website of health education about gestational diabetes mellitus will be given to participants and their partners, then structured questionnaires and regular health service from the hospital continue to be given.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Mackay Memorial Hospital

  collaborator OTHER

• Taiwan Adventist Hospital

  collaborator OTHER

• Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan

  collaborator OTHER_GOV

• Dianthus MFM Clinics

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• National Taiwan University Hospital

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• HUNG-HUI CHEN · National Taiwan University Hostiptal

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

20 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2023-10-26

Primary Completion

2026-12-31

Completion

2026-12-31

Countries

• Taiwan

Study Locations