Bowel Preparation for Repeat Colonoscopy After Preparation Failure (RepeatPrep Study)

Parc de Salut Mar

Status: Completed

Conditions: Bowel Preparation for Colonoscopy

Treatments: Behavioral: Educational telephone intervention; Behavioral: Standard education for colonoscopy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03055689

REPEATPREP

Details and patient eligibility

About

This trial will evaluate the efficacy in colon cleansing of a nurse-led educational telephone intervention 24-48 hours before a colonoscopy, in selected participants with a previous inadequate bowel preparation.

Enrollment: 657 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 85 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Consecutive patients with a colonoscopy with inadequate bowel preparation, for any indication and where the endoscopist considers that the colonoscopy should be repeated to optimize the visualization with a better bowel preparation. Participants must have been properly informed and they have to sign the inform consent.

Exclusion criteria

• Hospitalized patients
• Unwillingness to participate in the study
• Inability to follow instructions: cognitive impairment or language barrier
• Inability to use a telephone or not owning a telephone
• Active inflammatory bowel disease
• Severe renal impairment
• Pregnancy of breast feeding

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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657 participants in 2 patient groups

Educational telephone intervention

Experimental group

Description:

This group will receive a nurse-led educational telephone intervention for bowel preparation 24-48 before the colonoscopy

Treatment:

Behavioral: Educational telephone intervention

Standard education for colonoscopy

Active Comparator group

Description:

The control group will receive standard education for bowel preparation at the time of colonoscopy scheduling

Treatment:

Behavioral: Standard education for colonoscopy