Patient Satisfaction With Colonoscopy in a Danish Setting - What Are the Most Important Factors?

Colorectal Cancer Clinical Trial

Official title:

Patient Satisfaction With Colonoscopy in a Danish Setting - What Are the Most Important Factors?

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Withdrawn

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02422680
• Other study ID #: AalborgH
• Status: Withdrawn
• Start date: March 23, 2015
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2019

Study information

• Verified date: July 2019
• Source: Aalborg University Hospital
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational [Patient Registry]

Clinical Trial Summary

The study aim is to investigate factors associated with patient satisfaction during a colonoscopy.

Description:

The study aim to capture key quality indicators and patient satisfaction for 800 patients referred for a colonoscopy at Aalborg University Hospital. The patient population is mix of screening and non-screening colonoscopies seen at our out-patient clinic.

Each Colonoscopy is registered using a specially designed registration form and a more detailed form relating to the colonoscopy itself. The data collected includes: The Colonoscopist endoscopy experience and education, Medicine use, Colonoscopy duration, Unadjusted Caecum Intubations rate, Polyp detection rate, Polyps removed, Cancer detection rate and Nurse assisted Gloucester Comfort score.

Patient level data were recorded using a questionaire with 6 questions regarding satisfaction, pain, discomfort etc on a 10 cm analog scale.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Withdrawn
• Enrollment: 0
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2019
• Est. primary completion date: September 30, 2015
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• All patients referred to colonoscopy at the out-patient clinic at Aalborg University department.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Rejection to fill out questionaire.

• Patents referred to AVA (advanced endoscopy unit) were excluded as the are not comparable to regular colonoscopies. Most patients are referred to AVA for specific endoscopy treatments such as large polyp removals etc.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Colorectal Cancer
• Colorectal Neoplasms

Intervention

Procedure:
• No intervention, purely observational.
No intervention is made other than following existing guidelines for colonoscopy. Further treatment and/or renewed colonoscopy in case of positive findings follows existing guidelines. The group is used only used to collect quality assurance data.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Denmark	NordSim, Aalborg University Hospital	Aalborg

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Aalborg University Hospital	Nordsim

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Denmark, 

References & Publications (1)

Chartier L, Arthurs E, Sewitch MJ. Patient satisfaction with colonoscopy: a literature review and pilot study. Can J Gastroenterol. 2009 Mar;23(3):203-9. Review. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Patient Satisfaction	Each patient were given a questionaire with 6 questions answering satisfaction, pain, discomfort etc on a 10 cm analog scale.	1 day
Secondary	Nurses perception of patients' pain	Nurse assisted Gloucester Comfort score	1 day
Secondary	Patient Pain (own Perception)	10 cm analog scale	1 day