Mobile Messages Affects Adherence of Stent Removal or Exchange in Patients With Benign Pancreaticobiliary Diseases

Air Force Military Medical University of People's Liberation Army

Status: Completed

Conditions: Healthy

Treatments: Other: conventional group; Other: short message service group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02831127

20160707-1

Details and patient eligibility

About

Plastic and covered metal stents need to be removed or exchanged within appropriate time in case of undesirable complications. However, it is not uncommon that patients does not follow the recommendation for further stent management after ERCP. we hopothesized that short message service (SMS) intervention monthly could improve the adherence in patients with benign pancreaticobiliary after ERCP.

Enrollment: 48 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• be able to communicate via SMS by mobile phones of themselves or relatives living together

Exclusion criteria

• primary or secondary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC)
• malignant or suspected malignant stricture of biliary or pancreatic duct
• implantation of pancreatic duct (PD) stent for prevention of post-ERCP pancreatitis
• expected survival time less than 6 months
• plan of surgery within 6 months
• pregnant or lactating women
• patients who could not give informed consent.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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48 participants in 2 patient groups

short message service group

Experimental group

Description:

Patients in this arm received conventional instructions plus short message reminder.

Treatment:

Other: short message service group

conventional group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Patients in this arm just received conventional instructions.

Treatment:

Other: conventional group