The effect of relaxation on fasting blood glucose and blood pressure in women with gestational diabetes mellitus

Phase 2

• Conditions: Gestational diabetes mellitus.; Diabetes mellitus arising in Pregnancy

• Registration Number: IRCT2015071222943N2
• Lead Sponsor: Vice chancellor for research Tehran University of Medical Sciences

Brief Summary

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Detailed Description

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Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Last Update Posted: 22 February 2018

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Complete
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 80

Inclusion Criteria

Criteria of inclusion in the study: diagnosis of pregnancy diabetes by specialist physician; gestational age more than 24 weeks and lower than 26 weeks, lack of identified mental disorders, without illnesses such as asthma, chronic hypertension, kidney, heart, epilepsy which affects the blood sugar and pressure, lack of taking special drugs of pregnancy which affects blood sugar and pressure, ability to understand and speak Persian, literacy read and write; no history of stillbirth and infertility.
Criteria of exclusion from the study: missing pregnancy, excessive stress such as the death of someone close, intense family conflicts, accident and surgery operation during the research, nor performing relaxation exercises more than three consecutive days and lack of desire to cooperate, the risk of pregnancy complications such as preeclampsia, bleeding during the third trimester of pregnancy and infection during pregnancy, the necessity of performing other psychiatric intervention including necessity of visiting a psychiatrist, using sedative and antianxiety and doing hypnotism during research, initiating insulin shot during current pregnancy.

Exclusion Criteria

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Study & Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Fasting blood sugar. Timepoint: fast blood sugar (gr/dL) which will be measured prior to the intervention and after the intervention session will be finished through a laboratory method. Method of measurement: laboratory method and In gram per dc litr.;Systolic and diastolic blood pressure. Timepoint: systole and diastole blood pressure will be measured prior to the intervention and after the intervention session will be finished by a mercury sphygmomanometer. Method of measurement: mercury sphygmomanometer and Millimeters of mercury and.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
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