Research Article

Effect of Physician-Delivered Patient Education on the Quality of Bowel Preparation for Screening Colonoscopy

Table 1

Baseline characteristics of the study patients and the effect of education on the outcome of bowel preparation and colonoscopy.

Education value
Yes ( )No ( )

Age (mean ± SD) 0.014*
Gender (male %)25 (64.1%)37 (61.7%)0.81
Intubation time (minutes) 0.66
BBPS ≥ 538 (97.4%)48 (80%)0.01
Total score 0.012*
 Right score 0.18
 Transverse score 0.001*
 Left score 0.006*
Adenoma detection rate15/39 (38.5%)13/60 (22.0%)0.07
Adenoma detection number 0.029

Descriptive statistics for continuous data were calculated and were reported as mean ± standard deviation. Categorical variables were described using frequency distributions and were reported as (%). Baseline characteristics and assessment results for the education group and controls were evaluated using Student’s -test for continuous variables and chi-square test for categorical variables. * value < 0.05 was considered statistically significant.