Telephone Educational Intervention by the Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Nurse. Global Impact on the Quality of Colonoscopy

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

1534 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2018-02-20

Study Completion Date

2018-10-31

Brief Summary

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This study assesses what impact has on colonoscopy quality the implementation of a telephone educational intervention carried out individually on the patient in the days before the test. Half of the study patients will receive the educational intervention and the other half will not.

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Detailed Description

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A high-quality colonoscopy is an examination in with patients receive an indicated procedure, correct and relevant diagnoses are recognized or excluded, any therapy provided is appropriate, and all steps that minimize risk have been taken.

But quality also refers to pre-procedure and post-procedure quality issues such as information, booking, choice, privacy, dignity, aftercare and satisfaction of patients. All those issues can negatively affect the willingness of patients to perform the test and the possibility of preparing adequately. And what is more, it can diminish the quality of the own exploration, the satisfaction of the patients and their adherence to programs of endoscopic follow-up.

An action on these colonoscopy non-technical issues with a telephone educational intervention performed by the gastrointestinal endoscopy nurse can positively improve all (pre, intra and post-procedure) colonoscopy quality indicators.

Conditions

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Colonic Diseases Nurse-Patient Relations Educational Problems

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Reference population: all outpatient referred for the realization of a colonoscopy, regardless of the requesting Service.

Two groups. One of them will receive an complete educational telephone call 7 days before de procedure in addition to the information received from the primary care center on the day of the request for the test. The inclusion in each one of the groups will be done through a randomization sheet.

The intervention includes educational aspects:

Explanation of the importance of making the test. Guidelines for the usual medication of the patient. Definition of fasting, explanation of colon cleansing adjusted to the presence of predictors of poor basic preparation. Explanation of the endoscopic procedure with the elimination of erroneous concepts of the patient with respect to the procedure. Explanation of norms of action subsequent to the endoscopy. Management of scheduling, destined to improve the adherence of the patient for the test.

Primary Study Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Investigators

The endoscope that performs the colonoscopy and the person in charge of collecting the data of colonoscopy complications and the overall satisfaction of the procedure will be blind to the patient group.

Study Groups

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Telephone call group

The patient receives the colonoscopy information from the primary care center on the day of the request for the test and a 20 minute educational telephone call 7 days before de procedure.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Educational telephone call

Intervention Type OTHER

Explanation of the importance of making the test. Guidelines for the usual medication of the patient. Definition of fasting, explanation of colon cleansing adjusted to the presence of predictors of poor basic preparation. Explanation of the endoscopic procedure with the elimination of erroneous concepts of the patient with respect to the procedure. Explanation of norms of action subsequent to the endoscopy. Management of scheduling, destined to improve the adherence of the patient for the test.

Non-telephone call group

The patient only receives the colonoscopy information from the primary care center on the day of the request for the test.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Educational telephone call

Explanation of the importance of making the test. Guidelines for the usual medication of the patient. Definition of fasting, explanation of colon cleansing adjusted to the presence of predictors of poor basic preparation. Explanation of the endoscopic procedure with the elimination of erroneous concepts of the patient with respect to the procedure. Explanation of norms of action subsequent to the endoscopy. Management of scheduling, destined to improve the adherence of the patient for the test.

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* All outpatient referred from the Primary Care Centers to perform a colonoscopy in our Digestive Endoscopy Unit, regardless of the applicant's Service.

Exclusion Criteria

* Hospital patients, patients who refuse inclusion in the study, patients included in another study, impossibility of carrying out the educational intervention and patients who are unable to obtain informed consent will be excluded from the study.

Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No