NCT03667911

Virtual Reality Videos in Improving Bowel Preparation Quality of Colonoscopy

Educational Virtual Reality Videos in Improving Bowel Preparation Quality and Satisfaction of Outpatients Intended for Colonoscopy: a Prospective Randomised Controlled Study

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 322 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Peking Union Medical College Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Colonoscopy is the most important method to screen for colorectal cancer and precancerous lesions, whose efficacy is closely related with the quality of bowel preparation, requiring consuming purgatives and restricting the diet. Compliance to bowel preparation is highly dependent on patient education. In most cases, such education is offered only once at the time of colonoscopy scheduling by either oral or written instructions. However, about one in fourth patients still cannot achieve satisfactory bowel preparation quality. Various methods, including booklet, telephone or message reminders, smartphone applications, social media, online videos, have been used to aid patient education and prove effective. These methods can increase patient activation, which is an independent factor related to bowel preparation quality. Virtual reality(VR) videos are used in this study, giving patients direct impressions of colonoscopy. This study aims to explore whether VR videos can increase patient adherence and experience, as well as improve bowel preparation quality, compared with conventional patient education methods.

Conditions

• Patient Compliance
• Colo-rectal Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	virtual reality videos	Watch virtual reality videos after routine patient education(both oral and written instructions). Videos give instructions on correct steps of bowel preparation, points for attention, as well as actual images of bowel during colonoscopy in the case of both excellent and unsatisfactory bowel preparation.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-09-15
• Primary completion: 2019-12-01
• Completion: 2019-12-01
• First posted: 2018-09-12
• Last updated: 2019-07-02

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China