Written versus verbal patient information before gastrointestinal endoscopy: a randomized trial
Not Applicable
Completed
- Conditions
- Gastrointestinal endoscopyDigestive System
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN34382782
- Lead Sponsor
- Geneva University Hospital (Switzerland)
- Brief Summary
2008 results in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18522729/ (added 30/12/2020)
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 577
Inclusion Criteria
1. Patients scheduled for an elective digestive endoscopy (upper gastrointestinal endoscopy or colonoscopy) within three months
2. Resident in Switzerland
3. Understand French language
4. Able to fill in the study questionnaire
Note: Both inpatients and outpatients were included
Exclusion Criteria
1. Age <18 years
2. Pregnancy
3. Patients unable to give their own consent
4. Patients that had already undergone prior endoscopy
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Evaluation of quality of information rated on scales between 0 (none received) and 5 (excellent), assessed immediately after the endoscopy
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <br> Patients rated the following, using a questionnaire to be filled within 24 hours and sent back by mail in a prepaid envelope:<br> 1. Their anxiety at the time of the procedure (between none and strong)<br> 2. How tolerable the procedure was (between very easy and very hard)<br> 3. Their pain during the procedure (between none and strong)<br> 4. Whether any health problems occurred as a result of the procedure (none, minor, moderate or severe)<br> 5. The procedure as a whole (between poor and excellent)<br>