Johns Hopkins Interactive eGuide to Colonoscopy and Ipad Office Education to Improve Colonoscopy

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Colon Cancer Screening; Colon Cancer Surveillance
• Interventions: Other: eGuide to Colonoscopy and in office ipad education

• Registration Number: NCT01648504
• Lead Sponsor: Johns Hopkins University

Brief Summary

The investigators will attempt to improve the patient experience before colonoscopy. The investigators will provide an in-office ipad video series and an electronic web guide to help patients learn all the best ways to prepare for colonoscopy. The investigators will then follow the patients who receive this eGuide to colonoscopy and observe whether or not they enjoyed the additional access to information from their providers, and will monitor whether or not they were better prepared for their colonoscopy.

Detailed Description

This study would assess the ability of an e-intervention in patient education and instructions during peri-procedure and procedural day visits to improve the experience of gastroenterology procedures. This study would seek to show that through this alternative educational measure, there would be an increased show rate to colonoscopy appointments, an increased preparation quality, and an increase in patient understanding and satisfaction with the colonoscopy procedure. The investigators will attempt to track procedure completion rate and polyp detection rate for individual providers.

The e-intervention would be multimodal. In the pre-procedure setting, ipad would be able to provide a viewpoint for the video education, a template for the patients (or caregivers) to send themselves links to appropriate instructions to remind them of their obligations by secure email. This e-intervention would supplement traditional printed and website accessible instructions.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2012-06
• Study First Submitted: 2012-07-17
• Study First Submitted QC: 2012-07-19
• Study First Posted: 2012-07-24
• Primary Completion: 2013-09
• Study Completion: 2013-09
• Status Verified: 2014-03
• Last Update Submitted: 2014-03-26
• Last Update Posted: 2014-03-27

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 40

Inclusion Criteria

• Undergoing Colonoscopy at Johns Hopkins
• Ages 18 to 90
• Access to email (themselves or designee)
• Access to internet outside of physician visit

Exclusion Criteria

• Unable to consent
• Unwilling to participate
• Unable to care for themselves

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Intervention with eGuide to colonoscopy	eGuide to Colonoscopy and in office ipad education	The investigators will prospectively enroll and follow patients who receive the eGuide to Colonoscopy and determine benefit and satisfaction with the intervention as part of a pilot study.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Completion rate of colonoscopy procedure	1 day	Could the colonoscopy be completed in its entirety on the date scheduled?

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
preparation quality	one day	What was the quality of preparation as measured on the day of colonoscopy, preferably by the Boston Bowel Preparation score.
adenoma detection rate by provider	6 months	Measurement of adenoma detection rate by provider for study patients.
Patient satisfaction	3 months	An individual patient satisfaction survey will be provided to patients via the eGuide to Colonoscopy web-portal and will assess their enjoyment and understanding. A patient satisfaction survey is employed by the division to random patients over a three month period. We will assess both of these to determine patient satisfaction with the study intervention.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Johns Hopkins University; 🇺🇸 Baltimore, Maryland, United States