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Indigestion or dyspepsia is highly prevalent worldwide. Often these symptoms are of benign nature and subside without treatment, or with lifestyle interventions like dietary modifications. Too often, gastroscopy is performed because of dyspepsia. Although this is indicated when malignancy is suspected, in a substantial part of the cases the gastroscopy is not indicated and will not achieve clinically relevant results. It is suspected that gastroscopy is often used for reassurance of patients or as a 'last resort'.

Our hypothesis is that adequate education of patients can replace this need for invasive measures. The aim of this study was therefore to reduce the volume of gastroscopies for dyspepsia, by offering patients an e-learning containing educational material on dyspepsia.

During the trial, 119 dyspeptic patients, referred for gastroscopy by the GP, will randomly be divided into two groups: One group will receive the e-learning instead of gastroscopy (intervention), the other group will receive the gastroscopy (control).

After a twelve week follow-up, change in symptom severity, disease specific quality of life and fear of disease will be compared between the two groups.


Clinical Trial Description

Rationale: Upper gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms, such as dyspepsia without alarm symptoms, are highly prevalent in the general population. Lifestyle modifications and medication can reduce symptoms in most patients. Guidelines state that oesophagogastroduodenoscopy (OGD) is only indicated in a selected high risk group. In spite of these guidelines, OGD referrals for dyspepsia without alarm symptoms are still substantial, subjecting patients to unnecessary risks and causing a burden on healthcare costs and endoscopic capacity. Therefore a strategy is needed to reduce the volume of OGDs in dyspepsia without alarm symptoms.

Objective: To evaluate the clinical use of a patient-centred, education based, clinical strategy to reduce the volume of endoscopies for dyspepsia in patients over 18 years of age without alarm symptoms, referred for OGD through open-access endoscopy compared to usual care.

Study design: A multicentre, randomised, controlled superiority trial, with two parallel arms and a primary endpoint of the percentage of patients receiving OGD. Intervention and usual care will be compared.

Study population: 119 Patients, aged 18 years or above, with upper GI symptoms without alarm symptoms, referred for open-access OGD.

Intervention: Patients will be offered e-learning instead of endoscopy. The e-learning will contain educational material and questionnaires. Questionnaire data will be extracted from the e-learning.

Main study endpoints: The main study endpoint is the difference in proportion of patients receiving OGD between both arms and Patient Reported Outcomes (PROMS), after a follow-up of 12 weeks. ;


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NCT number NCT03205319
Study type Interventional
Source Radboud University
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Status Completed
Phase N/A
Start date November 20, 2017
Completion date March 1, 2019

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