Educating Outpatients for Bowel Preparation Before Colonoscopy Using Conventional Methods vs Virtual Reality Videos Plus Conventional Methods: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Adequate bowel preparation is essential for diagnostic, screening, and surveillance colonoscopy. Virtual reality (VR) has the characteristics of immersion, interaction, and imagination and has been widely used in medicine for training and teaching, indicating that it could be used in the education of outpatients for bowel preparation before colonoscopy.

Objective

To investigate whether using VR videos for patient education before colonoscopy could improve bowel preparation.

Design, setting, and participants

A prospective, single-blinded, randomized clinical trial of 346 patients undergoing colonoscopy with local anesthesia in a tertiary care hospital was conducted between October 1, 2018, and November 1, 2020. Outpatients who had indications for colonoscopy

SUBMITTER: Chen G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8609410 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature