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Effect of Chewing Gum and WeChat Enhanced Instructions on the Bowel Preparation Quality in Patients With Constipation

NCT05447403 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 115

Last updated 2024-02-23

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Summary

Patients with constipation are more likely to have poor bowel preparation quality due to slow gut motility and poor emptying ability. Gum chewing, as a proxy of sham feeding, is a very simple way used to accelerate gut motility. And a previous study found that enhanced instructions by WeChat could improve bowel preparation quality. Thus, investigators conducted a single-center randomized controlled trial to explore the effect of chewing gum combined with manual enhanced instructions by WeChat on the bowel preparation quality for colonoscopy in patients with constipation.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Chewing gum combined with WeChat enhanced instructions

Patients in the chewing gum and WeChat group are advised to chew one piece of sugarless gum for 20 minutes after drinking each 1 liter PEG. They also receive enhanced instructions via WeChat before two days and one day of colonoscopy to further inform how to chew gum and highlight the importance of adequate bowel preparation.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • General Hospital of Shenyang Military Region

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Xingshun Qi, MD · The General Hospital of Northern Theater Command

  • Cong Gao, MS · The General Hospital of Northern Theater Command

  • Fei Gao, MD · The General Hospital of Northern Theater Command

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-02-24
Primary Completion
2023-08-30
Completion
2023-08-30

Countries

  • China

Study Locations

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