The Effect of Health Coach Program on Self-Care and Psychological Problems in Women with Gestational Diabetes: A Review Study

Introduction: The health coach program is designed to encourage a healthy lifestyle. It has been considered as a population-based approach to prevent diabetes and improve health, it is implemented through health planning, and it trains the skills needed to improve self-efficacy, healthy behaviors related to lifestyle and physical health. This kind of educational program is done in two models of a small group and a hospital-to-home model. In the small group model, the coach talks about the self-care behavior, the disease of gestational diabetes and its treatment, with the patient s language, and in the hospital-to-home model, a telephone call is used to adhere to the treatment. This study aimed to investigate the effect of the health coach program on self-care behaviors and psychological problems in women with gestational diabetes.Materials and Methods: This study was conducted based on a narrative review method. For this purpose, a search was conducted in PubMed, Google Scholar, SID, WHO Science Direct databases. A total of 236 articles were searched and 42 of which were selected using the following keywords: Health Coach, Self-Care, Psychological Problems, Gestational Diabetes.Results: The results of our studies on the effect of health coach program on self-care and psychological problems in pregnant women with gestational diabetes were categorized in three categories: First category: psychological dimension: decreased depression and perceived stress, second category: knowledge promotion about self-care and self-monitoring in gestational diabetes, third category: behavioral change: changing lifestyle, diet and using blood glucose-lowering drugs.Conclusion: Health coach program is a new and effective method to improve self-care behaviors and reduce the psycho-emotional complications of patients with gestational diabetes. Therefore, the health coach program is proposed as a way to increase knowledge about self-care and improve self-care behaviors, and thus reduce the psychological, maternal and fetal complications of gestational diabetes.

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Health Coach ، Self-Care ، Psychological Problems ، Gestational Diabetes.Financial support: This research has been funded by the Student Research Committee of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences