Clinical trial NCT01648504: Johns Hopkins Interactive eGuide to Colonoscopy and Ipad Office Education to Improve Colonoscopy
Official title: Integration of an Electronic Education System Into Colonoscopy: Improving Education, Consent and Compliance of Patients at Colonoscopy With an Ipad-based Secure Video Intervention
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Colon Cancer Screening
Colon Cancer Surveillance
Keywords: Colonoscopy
Screening colonoscopy
Electronic education
Ipad
Patient education
Lead sponsor: Johns Hopkins University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Krames Staywell Corporation
First posted: 2012-07-24
Enrollment: 40
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 90
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP

Brief summary: The investigators will attempt to improve the patient experience before colonoscopy. The investigators will provide an in-office ipad video series and an electronic web guide to help patients learn all the best ways to prepare for colonoscopy. The investigators will then follow the patients who receive this eGuide to colonoscopy and observe whether or not they enjoyed the additional access to information from their providers, and will monitor whether or not they were better prepared for their colonoscopy.

Detailed description: This study would assess the ability of an e-intervention in patient education and instructions during peri-procedure and procedural day visits to improve the experience of gastroenterology procedures. This study would seek to show that through this alternative educational measure, there would be an increased show rate to colonoscopy appointments, an increased preparation quality, and an increase in patient understanding and satisfaction with the colonoscopy procedure. The investigators will attempt to track procedure completion rate and polyp detection rate for individual providers.

The e-intervention would be multimodal. In the pre-procedure setting, ipad would be able to provide a viewpoint for the video education, a template for the patients (or caregivers) to send themselves links to appropriate instructions to remind them of their obligations by secure email. This e-intervention would supplement traditional printed and website accessible instructions.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Undergoing Colonoscopy at Johns Hopkins
* Ages 18 to 90
* Access to email (themselves or designee)
* Access to internet outside of physician visit

Exclusion Criteria:

* Unable to consent
* Unwilling to participate
* Unable to care for themselves

Primary outcomes:
measure: Completion rate of colonoscopy procedure
timeFrame: 1 day
Secondary outcomes:
measure: preparation quality
timeFrame: one day
measure: adenoma detection rate by provider
timeFrame: 6 months
measure: Patient satisfaction
timeFrame: 3 months
Other outcomes:
measure: Feasibility of intervention in practice
timeFrame: 1 year
Locations:
city: Baltimore
country: United States
facility: Johns Hopkins University
state: Maryland
Study officials:
affiliation: Johns Hopkins University
name: Ellen M Stein, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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