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

Johns Hopkins University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Colon Cancer Surveillance; Colon Cancer Screening

Treatments: Other: eGuide to Colonoscopy and in office ipad education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01648504

NA_00070166

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Full 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.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 90 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

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

Trial design

40 participants in 1 patient group

Intervention with eGuide to colonoscopy

Experimental group

Description:

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.

Treatment:

Other: eGuide to Colonoscopy and in office ipad education