Impact of Telephone Call on Bowel Preparation Quality in Colonoscopies

Makassed General Hospital

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Colonoscopy

Treatments: Other: Phone calls; Other: Colonoscopy; Other: Standard bowel preparation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04644939

10112020

Details and patient eligibility

About

Bowel preparation regimens typically incorporate dietary modifications along with oral cathartics. Inadequate bowel preparation can result in failed detection of prevalent neoplastic lesions and has been linked to an increased risk of procedural adverse events. Previous studies have suggested that patient compliance is important to ensure proper bowel cleansing. Patient counseling along with written instructions that are simple and easy to follow and in their native language should be provided to patients.

Thus, interventions that improve the quality of bowel preparation could have a great benefit regarding colonoscopy results. Little in the literature that studies the impact of enhanced patient education on bowel preparation quality.

In this study we aim to determine the impact of patient education using telephone call one day prior to outpatient colonoscopy on bowel preparation quality.

Enrollment: 200 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patients undergoing outpatient colonoscopy

Exclusion criteria

• History of previous inadequate bowel preparation
• History of colorectal surgeries
• Patient who did not sign the consent
• Patients with dementia
• Patients with Swallowing difficulties

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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200 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Interventional group

Experimental group

Description:

Patients will receive bowel preparation instructions in a conventional way in addition to a telephone call for education purposes one day prior to procedure

Treatment:

Other: Colonoscopy

Other: Phone calls

Conventional group

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

Patients will receive bowel preparation instructions in a conventional way

Treatment:

Other: Colonoscopy

Other: Standard bowel preparation