The Impact of Patient Education with a Smartphone Application on the Quality of Bowel Preparation for Screening Colonoscopy
Clinical Endoscopy
; : 479-485, 2017.
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ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND/AIMS:
Few studies have evaluated the use of a smartphone application (app) for educating people undergoing colonoscopy and optimizing bowel preparation. Therefore, this study was designed to develop a smartphone app for people to use as a preparation guide and to evaluate the efficacy of this app when used prior to colonoscopy.METHODS:
In total, 142 patients (malefemale=8458, mean age=43.5±9.3 years), who were scheduled to undergo a colonoscopy at Myongji Hospital, were enrolled in this study. Seventy-one patients were asked to use a smartphone app that we had recently developed to prepare for the colonoscopy, while the 71 patients of the sex and age-matched control group were educated via written and verbal instructions.RESULTS:
The quality of bowel cleansing, evaluated using the Boston Bowel Preparation Scale, was significantly higher in the smartphone app group than in the control group (7.70±1.1 vs. 7.24±0.8, respectively, p=0.007 by t-test). No significant differences were found between the two groups regarding work-up time and the number of patients with polyps.CONCLUSIONS:
In this study, targeting young adults (≤50 years), the bowel preparation achieved by patients using the smartphone app showed significantly better quality than that of the control group.Palavras-chave
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Assunto principal:
Pólipos
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Programas de Rastreamento
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Educação de Pacientes como Assunto
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Colonoscopia
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Neoplasias do Colo
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Enema
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Aplicativos Móveis
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Smartphone
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
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Screening_studies
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Clinical Endoscopy
Ano de publicação:
2017
Tipo de documento:
Article