OBJECTIVES: Gestational diabetes mellitus is one of the most commonly occurring conditions in pregnancy. We chose the adherency examination of pregnant women with gestational diabetes mellitus care as topic of our research

METHODS: The type of our research was cross-sectional, quantitative nature. Our selected target group included mothers who were previously diagnosed with GDM during their pregnancy and who had 1-7 years old children (n=76). The sampling method was non-randomized, targeted selection. Our research, was carried out between June 2016 and January 2017 in Szombathely, Hungary. Question groups of our own-edited questionnaire: socio-demographic data, lifestyle, care follow-up. We used mean, prevalence and Chi2 test to statistical analysis. Evaluation of the questionnaires was done by MS Excel software.

RESULTS: Gestational diabetes have been formed during the first pregnancy in 71% of the cases. In 81% of the cases GDM was also present during their later pregnancies, 13% of cases, type 2 diabetes mellitus developed as well after their GDM pregnancy. Since their GDM pregnancy, 11 people did not check their blood sugar levels. Examining the frequency of the metabolic syndrome, the daily 30-minute physical activity had preventive effect against the development of disease (p <0.05). We could not find a strong correlation between qualification, regular attendance of care and adherence to diet (p> 0.05), between lifestyle changes, including dietary habits change and onset of type 2 diabetes mellitus (p> 0.05). Comparing educational level and therapeutic cooperation, we found a correlation with respect to adherence with prescribed drug therapy (p <0.05).

CONCLUSIONS: We would pay more attention to follow up women treated with GDM who has already given birth because with a proper diet and physical activity we can easily reduce or delay the development of type 2 diabetes mellitus and metabolic syndrome.