NCT03638752

The Impact of Comprehensive Education Before Gastroscopy on Improving the Tolerance of Patients

The Impact of Comprehensive Education Before Gastroscopy on Improving the Tolerance of Patients: A Prospective Randomized Controlled Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 260 (actual)
• Sponsor: Ningbo No. 1 Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This clinical trial is being conducted to assess whether the comprehensive education before gastroscopy could reduce the adverse reactions, such as nausea, vomiting and improve patient satisfaction.

Conditions

• Comprehensive Education

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Comprehensive education group	The details of Comprehensive education are as follows: 1. introduce the purpose, method and function of breathing training and the whole process of gastroscopy; 2. instruct patients to take deep breath training, inhaling with his/her nose and exhaling with his/her mouth, 3. provide patients with a disposable dental biting device and repeat exercising deep breathing again until he/she is fully mastered, 4. inform patients to cooperate with the instructions issued by endoscopist and endoscopy nurse during the whole process of gastroscopy, 5. inform patients to inhale with nose and exhale with mouth when the gastroscope passes through the throat, then he/she should perform inhaling and exhaling with his/her nose until the end of the gastroscopy when the endoscopist ask to adjust the breathing method, 6. inform patients that there would be some normal physiological reaction when gastroscopy, such as throat discomfort and nausea/vomiting.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-08-15
• Primary completion: 2018-08-15
• Completion: 2018-09-15
• First posted: 2018-08-20
• Last updated: 2019-07-02

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China