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An Interactive Video Educational Tool Improves the Quality of Bowel Preparation for Colonoscopy

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The Washington University

Status

Completed

Conditions

Colon Cancer Screening

Treatments

Other: educational video

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT04491565
201909053

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators aimed to determine whether an interactive, online educational platform could improve procedure show rates and bowel preparation scores in an outpatient population presenting for routine colonoscopy.

Full description

The investigators performed a prospective, endoscopist-blinded, randomized controlled trial at a hospital-based outpatient endoscopy center. Eligible patients were randomized to two groups. Both groups received verbal and written instructions per standard care, while the intervention group received access to an interactive, on-line video. Primary outcomes were bowel preparation scores graded using the Boston Bowel Prep Score (BBPS), procedure show rates, patient satisfaction, and pre-procedure anxiety. Secondary outcomes included adenoma detection rate, mean bowel prep score per colonic segment, total number of polyps detected, and complication rates.

Enrollment

270 patients

Sex

All

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • English speaking
  • Access to text messaging and the internet (mobile phone access alone was considered sufficient)
  • Prescribed standard split-dose bowel preparation
  • Able to provide informed consent via telephone.

Exclusion criteria

  • Pregnant
  • Mentally impaired
  • Undergoing screening or surveillance for inflammatory bowel disease .

Trial design

Primary purpose

Screening

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

Single Blind

270 participants in 2 patient groups

standard education
No Intervention group
educational video
Active Comparator group
Treatment:
Other: educational video

Trial contacts and locations

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