Mobile Phone Reminder Messages Improves the Adherence of Stent Removal or Exchange in Patients With Benign Pancreaticobiliary Diseases
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Completed
- Sponsor
- Enrollment
- 48
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Adherence rate of biliary stent removal/exchange
Study Overview
Brief Summary
Plastic and covered metal stents need to be removed or exchanged within appropriate time in case of undesirable complications. However, it is not uncommon that patients does not follow the recommendation for further stent management after ERCP. we hopothesized that short message service (SMS) intervention monthly could improve the adherence in patients with benign pancreaticobiliary after ERCP.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel
- Primary Purpose
- Prevention
- Masking
- Double (Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 18 Years to — (Adult, Older Adult)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria
- •be able to communicate via SMS by mobile phones of themselves or relatives living together
Exclusion Criteria
- •primary or secondary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC)
- •malignant or suspected malignant stricture of biliary or pancreatic duct
- •implantation of pancreatic duct (PD) stent for prevention of post-ERCP pancreatitis
- •expected survival time less than 6 months
- •plan of surgery within 6 months
- •pregnant or lactating women
- •patients who could not give informed consent.
Arms & Interventions
short message service group
Patients in this arm received conventional instructions plus short message reminder.
Intervention: short message service group (Other)
conventional group
Patients in this arm just received conventional instructions.
Intervention: conventional group (Other)
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Adherence rate of biliary stent removal/exchange
Time Frame: up to 1 year
Percentage of patients adherence to stent removal/exchange within appropriate time
Secondary Outcomes
- Stent-associated adverse event(1 year)
Investigators
Yanglin Pan
Associated professor
Air Force Military Medical University, China