The Impact of Telephone and Short Message System Based Education on Bowel Preparation for Colonoscopy

Keimyung University

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 3

Conditions: Bowel Preparation

Treatments: Other: Telephone based re-education; Other: Short message system based re-education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01911052

2013-05-050-002

Details and patient eligibility

About

Inadequate bowel preparation results in decreased rates of cecal intubation, increased rates of missing important lesions, increased patient discomfort, higher risk of complications, prolonged procedure time and increased health-care cost. Recent study reported that Telephone-based re-education (TRE) on the day before colonoscopy significantly improved the quality of bowel preparation and polyp detection rate. However, there is no study to compare the effect of telephone with short message system (SMS) based re-education on the quality of bowel preparation in health screened population. Our goal is to improve the quality of bowel preparation with telephone or SMS based re-education for outpatients undergoing screening colonoscopies. The investigators hypothesise that efforts to improve education and maximise patient compliance during the preparatory period will enhance the efficacy of bowel preparation.

Enrollment: 390 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 19 to 80 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All health screened populations
• age >18
• scheduled for an elective screening colonoscopy

Exclusion criteria

• inpatients
• pregnancy
• breast feeding
• prior history of surgical large bowel resection
• patients allergic to PEG-ELS based laxatives

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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390 participants in 3 patient groups

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

The investigational, or experimental arm, will receive standard written instructions on preparing for a colonoscopy plus intervention such as telephone based re-education by one investigator on the day before colonoscopy.

Treatment:

Other: Telephone based re-education

Standard preparation instructions

No Intervention group

Description:

The control arm will receive written instruction on preparing for a colonoscopy per standard of care at Keimyung University Dongsan Medical Center

Interventional

Experimental group

Description:

The investigational, or experimental arm, will receive standard written instructions on preparing for a colonoscopy plus intervention such as short message system based re-education by one investigator on the day before colonoscopy.

Treatment:

Other: Short message system based re-education