NCT02062112

Improving Tolerability of Bowel Preparation Laxative for Colonoscopy

Comparison of Patterns of Laxative Ingestion to Improve Bowel Preparation for Colonoscopy: A Pilot Randomized Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 313 (actual)
• Sponsor: Howard University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 100 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether the pattern of flavoring and drinking of laxatives for colonoscopy can improve the experience of patients when they are undergoing bowel preparation for the test. Investigators hypothesize that patients will have a better experience if patients taste the bowel preparation laxative with and without flavoring and then decide how they want to drink the rest of the laxative since taste preferences vary widely from person to person.

Conditions

• Colonoscopy
• Bowel Preparation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Pattern of flavoring of bowel laxative	Unflavored bowel laxative versus entire bowel laxative flavored versus liberal flavoring as decided by patient

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-02-11
• Primary completion: 2015-01-21
• Completion: 2015-01-21
• First posted: 2014-02-13
• Last updated: 2018-09-14

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States