Global Journal of Medical Research, F: Diseases, Volume 23 Issue 2

There is also evidence of a flow of beliefs in relationship with guilt and low self-esteem. Despite how unflattering the previous results are, the knowledge of these beliefs, attitudes and social representations of women with GDM, can be an important input in the adequacy of guides and guidelines for the psychosocial accompaniment of women with this diagnosis, which incidentally, at least in the Latin American context, are quite scarce, reducing, in the cases in which they exist, to guides of a medical care type, ignoring the transcendent of both social and psychological variables, not only in the appearance of pathology, but in its management. It is clear then that knowledge of beliefs, cognitions and attitudes of women with GDM, will allow progress in aspects as crucial as helping patients to adhere to treatment, generate psychoeducational models, understand the pathology and its treatment and even involve the family group and the couple in managing not only the pathology, but throughout the pregnancy process. For this reason, it is presented this research that has the purpose of carrying out a systematic review around the cognitions and beliefs present in women with gestational diabetes mellitus. II. M aterials and M ethods • Design and type of study: This is a systematic review carried out with the methodology of the Cochrane Collaboration (Higgins and Green, 2011) and the PRISMA statement and checklist (Moher, Liberati, Tetzlaff, and Altman, 2010). • Search strategy: Inquiries were made in the databases of Pubmed, Scielo, Hindawi, Springer Link and BMC Medicine data, in order to identify scientific articles in English and Spanish from 2000 to 2021. The exploration was limited to the last two decades due to the interest that the scientific community has presented in the psychosocial factors associated with the GDM (Jiménez-Chafey and Dávila, 2007). Also made supplementary manual searches and retrieved the articles that met the inclusion criteria. Descriptors were used using booleans that included DMG and beliefs, attitudes and cognitions. • Inclusion Criteria: Studies with female participants over 18 years of age (assured in one way or another by the presence of a consolidated belief system) diagnosed with GDM. Studies on the belief system, cognitions, attitudes, frames of reference and social representations. In addition, observational studies were included. • Exclusion Criteria: Studies with samples of women under 18 years old. Likewise, studies belonging to gray literature, studies reviewed in blogs or web pages of public or private institutions. • Selection of studies: It is presented in the PRISMA flowchart described in Figure 1. Of the 85 preselected articles, it was read the full text to arrive at a final selection that included 28 articles. • Data extraction and analysis: A matrix was constructed that included the consulted database, article title, author, keywords, methodology, results, conclusions. Additionally, a review was constructed for each of the research included in this review. These are the supplies principles for the analysis of the results and the conclusions of this study. III. R esults Of the 28 articles selected to be included in this systematic review (Figure 1), the most important results are indicated below. 39 Year 2023 Global Journal of Medical Research Volume XXIII Issue II Version I ( D ) F © 2023 Global Journals Beliefs and Attitudes in Women with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus. A Systematic Review