Attendance for Postpartum Glucose Tolerance Testing Following Gestational Diabetes among South Asian Women in Australia: A Qualitative Study

Attendance for Postpartum Glucose Tolerance Testing Following Gestational Diabetes among South Asian Women in Australia: A Qualitative Study

To conduct an in-depth exploration of the experiences of and perspectives on postpartum Glucose Tolerance Test (GTT) screening of South Asian women diagnosed with GDM in Melbourne, Australia. Using an exploratory qualitative methodology, this study was carried out in two phases: the first phase involved face-to-face in-depth interviews with 17 recent immigrant women from South Asia. In the second phase 23 GDM diagnosed women were interviewed.