NCT04590105

The Impact of a Smartphone App on the Quality of Pediatric Colonoscopy Preparations

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 42 (actual)
• Sponsor: Stony Brook University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 5 Years – 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The investigators developed a smartphone app that guides pediatric patients and their families through colonoscopy prep in an attempt to see if an app could improve the colonoscopy process.

Detailed description

The investigators created a smartphone app designed for pediatric patients and their families that informs patients about their colonoscopy procedure, alerts them when to take their medications throughout the hours-long colonoscopy prep process and tells them when to arrive to the endoscopy suite. The investigators designed a study to determine if this app will yield improved colonoscopy cleanouts, better patient understanding of the procedure, fewer calls to the GI service and more punctual arrival times to the endoscopy suite compared to patients who receive written instructions that do not actively interact with the patient before, during or after their colonoscopy prep.

Conditions

• Pediatric ALL

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Smartphone App "SB Colonoscopy Prep"	We created a smartphone app that informs patients about their colonoscopy procedure, alerts them when to take their medications throughout the hours-long colonoscopy prep process and tells them when to arrive to the endoscopy suite.
OTHER	Written Instruction	Written Instruction

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-11-15
• Primary completion: 2015-05-01
• Completion: 2015-05-01
• First posted: 2020-10-19
• Last updated: 2020-10-19