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Instant Messaging Program (Wechat) Improve the Quality of Bowel Preparation

NCT02140827 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 770

Last updated 2014-12-23

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Colonoscopy is the gold standard in the diagnosis of colorectal disease. The success of colonoscopy depends on high-quality bowel preparation by patients. Inadequate bowel cleansing reduces the cecal intubation rate, and the polyp detection rate (PDR). It also increases costs, mostly due to repeated procedures. The quality of bowel cleansing has remained suboptimal even though numerous different products and regimens have been tested and compared in no fewer than six meta-analyses. Therefore, a completely different approach to improve bowel cleansing is welcome.

Here the investigators assume that instant messaging program (Wechat) delivery the detail and FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) of bowel preparation instructions would improve the quality of the bowel preparation. The Wechat program has some advantages, 1. Wechat supports over 400 million users, nearly half of the mobile subscribers population in China; 2. Wechat provided a real time communications including voice messages, pictures and text exchange timely; 3.Compare with telephone, Wechat is economical of both time and money; 4. Compare with bowel preparation instructional software and litera or cartoon educational booklet, Wechat is more interactive and responsive.

Conditions

  • Bowel Preparation

Interventions

OTHER

IMP interactive education

The detail and FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) of bowel preparation instructions is delivered by Wechat.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Air Force Military Medical University, China

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Yanglin Pan, M.D. · Air Force Military Medical University, China

  • Limei Wang, M.D. · Department of gastroenterology, Shaanxi Second People's Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SCREENING
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
80 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-05-31
Primary Completion
2014-12-31
Completion
2014-12-31

Countries

  • China

Study Locations

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