Clinical Study
The Effectiveness of Personalized Bowel Preparation Using a Smartphone Camera Application: A Randomized Pilot Study
Table 1
Baseline characteristics of the study population.
| | Characteristics | App group () | Non-app group () | Total () | value |
| | Age, y | 47.4 ± 8.1 | 51.0 ± 7.6 | 49.4 ± 7.9 | 0.103 | | Gender, male, number (%) | 13 (68) | 11 (46) | 24 (56) | 0.143 | | Body mass index, kg/m2 | 23.5 ± 2.7 | 22.6 ± 1.4 | 23.1 ± 2.1 | 0.471 | | Marital status, married, number (%) | 16 (84) | 22 (92) | 38 (88) | 0.454 | | Abdominal or pelvic surgery | 5 (26) | 4 (17) | 9 (21) | 0.445 | | Indication of colonoscopy | | | | | | Screening | 11 (57.8) | 15 (62.5) | 26 (60.4) | 0.762 | | Surveillance | 2 (10.5) | 4 (16.6) | 6 (13.9) | 0.568 | | Symptoms | 6 (31.6) | 5 (20.8) | 11 (25.6) | 0.428 | | Polyp detection rate (%) | 31.5 | 41.6 | 37.2 | 0.502 | | Adenoma detection rate (%) | 21.1 | 29.1 | 25.5 | 0.549 | | Colonoscopy withdrawal time, second | 553.8 ± 322.2 | 579.4 ± 292.8 | 568.1 ± 302.7 | 0.599 | | Colonoscopy insertion time, second | 412.6 ± 320.0 | 578.7 ± 292.9 | 491.1 ± 294.9 | 0.013 | | Colonoscopy work time, second | 957.0 ± 439.3 | 1132.0 ± 379.8 | 1054.7 ± 411.6 | 0.058 |
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Values are given as the mean ± standard deviation or number (%).
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