NCT02832869

Impact of Reinforced Education by Wechat and Short Message Service on the Quality of Bowel Preparation

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: Phase 4
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 450 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Changhai Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

High quality bowel preparation is essential for successful colonoscopy. This study aimed to assess the impact of reinforced education by Wechat or short message service (SMS) on the quality of bowel preparation. This prospective, endoscopist-blinded, randomized, controlled study was conducted. Reinforced education groups received additional education via reminders by Wechat or SMS 2 days before colonoscopy. The primary outcome was the quality of the bowel preparation according to the Boston Bowel Preparation Scale (BBPS). The secondary outcomes included polyp detection rate (PDR), adenoma detection rate (ADR), tolerance, and subjective feelings of patients.

Conditions

• Bowel Preparation Scale
• Adenoma Detection Rate

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	short message service based re-education	The patients 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.
OTHER	Wechat based re-education	The patients will receive standard written instructions on preparing for a colonoscopy plus intervention such as Wechat based re-education by one investigator on the day before colonoscopy.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-08-01
• Primary completion: 2017-07-01
• Completion: 2017-12-01
• First posted: 2016-07-14
• Last updated: 2017-06-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China