Table 5 Results

Significant difference in mean level of awareness between women diagnosed with GDM (treatment group): 2.6 ± 1.8 (SD) and women diagnosed without GDM (control group): 2.14 ± 1.8 (SD); p value = 0.012.

Significant difference in correct answers between the treatment and the control groups for questions:

1) Does GDM increases the risk for the foetus to be macrosomic (67.5% versus 52.5%; p = 0.004)

5) Does GDM increases the risk for intrauterine foetal death (50% versus 30.5% p = 0.0001).

Binomial logistic regression analysis:

An affirmative answers to the questionnaire questions was more likely in the presence of a high level of education and the fact the fact of having had previous pregnancies.