NCT03815136

The Effectiveness of Chewing Gum in Influencing Capsule Endoscopy Transit Time

The Effectiveness of Improved Use of Chewing Gum in Influencing Capsule Endoscopy Transit Time: A Prospective Randomized, Controlled Pilot Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 250 (actual)
• Sponsor: The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 16 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of chewing gum, during the first one hour of examination in patients undergoing CE for GTT and SBTT time and the proportion of cases with complete small bowel examination and gastroscopy intervention.

Detailed description

The participants will include patients who need to a capsule endoscopy (CE) in this unit. The investigators will include 200 participants who had a CE at our centre based on the gastric transit times. These will be randomly divided into two groups. The participants (chew chewing gum) and the controls (do not chew chewing gum).

Conditions

• Gastric Transit Time
• Small-bowel Transit Time

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Chewing Gum	Patients of CG group chewed one piece of sugarless gum for approximately 15 min every 30 min at the first hour of the examination.
OTHER	Control	The control group will not chew chewing gum while undergoing capsule endoscopy

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-01-20
• Primary completion: 2019-06-30
• Completion: 2019-07-31
• First posted: 2019-01-24
• Last updated: 2020-05-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China