The Impact of Telephone and Short Message System Based Education on Bowel Preparation for Colonoscopy

Phase 3

Completed

• Conditions: Bowel Preparation
• Interventions: Other: Telephone based re-education; Other: Short message system based re-education

• Registration Number: NCT01911052
• Lead Sponsor: Keimyung University Dongsan Medical Center

Brief Summary

Inadequate bowel preparation results in decreased rates of cecal intubation, increased rates of missing important lesions, increased patient discomfort, higher risk of complications, prolonged procedure time and increased health-care cost. Recent study reported that Telephone-based re-education (TRE) on the day before colonoscopy significantly improved the quality of bowel preparation and polyp detection rate. However, there is no study to compare the effect of telephone with short message system (SMS) based re-education on the quality of bowel preparation in health screened population. Our goal is to improve the quality of bowel preparation with telephone or SMS based re-education for outpatients undergoing screening colonoscopies. The investigators hypothesise that efforts to improve education and maximise patient compliance during the preparatory period will enhance the efficacy of bowel preparation.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2013-07
• Study First Submitted: 2013-07-22
• Study First Submitted QC: 2013-07-26
• Study First Posted: 2013-07-30
• Primary Completion: 2014-02
• Study Completion: 2014-02
• Status Verified: 2014-07
• Last Update Submitted: 2014-07-16
• Last Update Posted: 2014-07-17

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 390

Inclusion Criteria

• All health screened populations
• age >18
• scheduled for an elective screening colonoscopy

Exclusion Criteria

• inpatients
• pregnancy
• breast feeding
• prior history of surgical large bowel resection
• patients allergic to PEG-ELS based laxatives

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Intervention	Telephone based re-education	The investigational, or experimental arm, will receive standard written instructions on preparing for a colonoscopy plus intervention such as telephone based re-education by one investigator on the day before colonoscopy.
Interventional	Short message system based re-education	The investigational, or experimental arm, will receive standard written instructions on preparing for a colonoscopy plus intervention such as short message system based re-education by one investigator on the day before colonoscopy.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Quality of bowel preparation	day 1	The primary outcomes will be the endoscopist's assessment of the quality of preparation using Boston and Ottawa bowel preparation scare

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
polyp detection rate	day 1	The number of polyp prescribed by endoscopist.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Eun Soo Kim; 🇰🇷 Daegu, Korea, Republic of