Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: Theory of Reasoned Action
What you'll learn
- Theory of Reasoned Action
- Identification of Pre-Diabetes and Diagnosis of Diabetes
- Impaired fasting glucose (IFG) and Impaired glucose tolerance (IGT)
- Pregestational Diabetes
- Screening and Diagnosis through Pregnancy
- Macrosomia Story
- Developing Medicinal Adherence: Continuous Glucose Observation
- Protocols of Insulin administration
- Twice daily regime and Four times daily regime
- Oral Hypoglycaemic agents
Requirements
- Little information concerning Gestational Diabetes Mellitus.
Description
Background: Diabetes mellitus is a collection of metabolic troubles described by a chronic hyperglycemic situation generating from troubles in insulin action, insulin secretion or both. Gestational diabetes mellitus influences within 2% and 5% of women in pregnancy. From the beginning of TRA in behavioral survey, it has been utilized to study a broad diversity of situations and is at present considered as one of the extreme influential theories concerning volitional individual behavior.
The Aim of this Course: I recognize that it is secure to tell that almost everybody reading this course would like to improve interventions for pregnant women to develop medical choice creation and the public's well-being.
In the present course, I depict a theoretical tactic to the prognosis and perception of pregnant women behavior with a vision to its implementation in health and medical situations. What the reasoned action tactic tries to perform is to recognize a relatively small collection of variables that can be considered for a prime proportion of the variation in any offered behavior concerning pregnant women with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM).
Significance of the Course: Laboratory or clinical measures are utilized to draw a frontier between non-disease and disease. Where potential, the condition is depicted in expressions of the causal factor or procedure; when this is not potential, the trouble is determined in expressions of its footprints (for example histological alteration or functional trouble) or its prognostic involvements.
The simplification of action, context, target, and time is to some extant qualitative. For instance, assume one was concerned in anticipating whether a pregnant woman with GDM will always have an appropriate glycemic control in the period of pregnancy or not. More specifically, suppose that within months from now, we ask a pregnant woman with GDM whether she did or did not always follow her physician's directions accurately during the past months.
Method: The present course improved and tested a pattern established on the TRA to grasp the troubles that occur with pregnant women who have GDM and their demand for ideal glycemic control. Theory of Reasoned Action, anyway, is a chain of related notions and hypotheses supposed by public psychologists to foresee and to comprehend individual behavior.
Commonly speaking, my course renders as an extension for the current literature concerning pregnant women with GDM. In spite of the truth that TRA was widely utilized to debate the motive of different reasoned actions, my course might become a pioneer in utilizing TRA to debate the behavioral pattern for pregnant women with GDM exercises and discussing the pertinence of TRA established on available data to accomplish ideal glycemic control, and thus far promoting pregnant women's health.
Discussion: Regardless of how one selects to determine a behavior, the time that behavior has been determined, a reasoned action tactic proposes that an alteration in any one of the previous elements - action, context, target, and time - alters the behavior under contemplation. Thence, from this side, one does not accomplish the similar behavior in various contexts but alternatively performs various behaviors. For instance, following a particular diet and performing physical activity is a very various behavior than following a particular diet and performing physical activity together with taking insulin or any other anti-diabetic agents. This actually depends on what the pregnant woman with GDM needs to have an ideal glycemic control.
Results and Conclusion: Preconception patronage and pregestational guidance can reduce the average of spontaneous abortion and fetal distortion. Efforts to normalise concentrations of blood glucose in pregnant patients began to be the backbone of therapy. Persistent glucose observation can present preferable insights inside the glycemic side view than self-observation of blood glucose standards via the patients but the position of these modern observation modes has yet to be accomplished more obviously.
The most widely utilized regime for patients with gestational or pregestational diabetes is taking insulin two times a day, the morning dose including two thirds of the overall daily insulin and as well, the afternoon dose including one third of the overall daily insulin. Usage of oral hypoglycemic medications to cure GDM has not been advocated because of worries concerning possible teratogenicity and glucose transmission across the placenta (Leading to extended neonatal hypoglycemia).
The issue is either that pregnant women with GDM do not own the substantial skills, abilities and knowledge or that there are inner or exterior obstacles prohibiting them from performing on their intentions. However, in these situations, the suitable interference is not one outlined to alter attitudes or to impart awareness but one guided at skills constructing or at assisting them evade or overcome obstacles.
Future Recommendation: Improvements in computational accesses for counting postprandial glucose flows and the improvement of closed loop frameworks may present further tools to target for additional decrease in danger of macrosomia in later decades.
Let me propose that we do inform what we own to perform in order to alter an attitude. That is, we can determine the opinions which would have to be strengthened or altered in order to support or change an offered behavior. In that significance, we really do not demand modern behavioral theories. Anyway, what we do demand, is for commune to better grasp and to properly utilize current theory. Even more essential, we demand preferable theories of communication impacts. Particularly, we demand to grasp the factors affecting whether an offered piece of data will be rejected or accepted. Whoever finds this out will manufacture an actual contribution to develop the pregnant women's health!
Commonly speaking, my course renders as an extension for the current literature concerning pregnant women with GDM. In spite of the truth that TRA was widely utilized to debate the motive of different reasoned actions, my course might become a pioneer in utilizing TRA to debate the behavioral pattern for pregnant women with GDM exercises and discussing the pertinence of TRA established on available data to accomplish ideal glycemic control, and thus far promoting pregnant women's health.
Keywords: Gestational Diabetes Mellitus; Theory of Reasoned Action; Pregestational Diabetes; Screening; Diagnosis; and Pregnancy.
Who this course is for:
- People from whole of the world, who have an interest in the following approaches:
- 1) Clinical Pharmacology
- 2) Physiology
- 3) Social Behavior
- 4) Health Education & Behavior
- 5) Health Promotion
- 6) Nutrition
- 7) Obstetrics and Gynecology
- 8) Endocrinology and Metabolism
- 9) Medical Sciences
- 10) Clinical Pharmacokinetics
- 11) Therapeutic Drug Monitoring
- 12) Clinical Chemistry
- 13) Clinical Therapy
- 14) Biochemistry
- 15) Pathology
- 16) Laboratory Sciences
- 17) Epidemiology
- 18) Etiology
- 19) Human Relationships
- 20) Pharmacotherapy
- 21) Quality Management in Health Care
- 22) Theory and Research
- 23) Women Health
- 24) Clinical research
- 25) Pathophysiology
- 26) Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice
- 27) Social Psychology
- and 28) Teratology.
- Anyway, this course material contains fifty-five (55) resources.
Instructor
Maram Shtaya is a distinguished Palestinian pharmacist, American Studies instructor, author, and researcher with a profound commitment to interdisciplinary education and research. As an independent educator on the Udemy platform, she has reached over 9,000 students across approximately 140 countries, sharing her innovative teaching methodologies and research-driven insights. Through her courses, she integrates qualitative and interdisciplinary research across various fields, fostering intellectual curiosity and academic excellence.
Her extensive research interests span a diverse range of disciplines, including but not limited to:
- Humanities & Social Sciences: Traditional Slave Tales, Philosophy, American Studies, Literature, Cultural Criticism, Political Economy, Ethnic Identity, Ideology, Postcolonial Literature, and Globalization.
- Management & Technology: Strategic Management, Project Management, Operations Management, Industrial Pharmacy, ISO Standards, Quality Innovation, Business Excellence, and Artificial Intelligence Technology.
- Medical & Pharmaceutical Sciences: Clinical Pharmacology, Pharmacokinetics, Therapeutic Drug Monitoring, Medical Ethics, Pathophysiology, Pharmacogenetics, Biomedicine, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, and Drug Metabolism.
- Sciences & Engineering: Bioinformatics, Nanochemistry, Structural Biology, Systems Biology, Computational Toxicology, Chemical Biology, and Physical Pharmacy.
A lifelong learner, Maram has pursued extensive professional development through numerous training courses, shaping her expertise independently. Since August 2017, she has dedicated her career exclusively to online education on Udemy, making it her sole professional endeavor.
Beyond her teaching contributions, Maram actively engages in global initiatives. From 2021 to 2022, she participated in United Nations online voluntary projects with international organizations. Further advancing her academic pursuits, she started a Master’s in Clinical Pharmacy (MSc Thesis) at Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey, in October 2022. As part of her training, she completed clinical rotations in Hospital Pharmacy, Cardiology, Hematology/Oncology, and Pediatric & Newborn Units at Yeditepe University Hospital from April to June 2023. Demonstrating her dedication to continuous learning, she successfully completed Turkish language proficiency levels (A1–B2) between June and December 2023.
Maram’s professional affiliations include memberships in several prestigious organizations:
- International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) – Member since January 2024
- American Heart Association (AHA) – Member since April 2024
- International Association of Therapeutic Drug Monitoring and Clinical Toxicology (IATDMCT) – Full Member since April 2024
- International Diabetes Federation (IDF) – Member since May 2024
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) – Member since June 2024
Maram Shtaya remains committed to advancing knowledge, fostering academic excellence, and contributing meaningfully to global education and research. She welcomes collaboration and engagement from scholars, students, and professionals worldwide.
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