From: Evaluating lubiprostone for effective bowel preparation before colonoscopy
Parameters | Control (n=50) | Intervention (n=50) | p-value | |
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What concerns you most before colonoscopy | Purgative | 10 | 36 | < 0.0001 |
Sedation | 35 | 19 | 0.001 | |
Colonoscopy | 33 | 40 | 0.1 | |
I experienced the taste as | Neutral | 0 | 25 | < 0.0001 |
Worse than expected | 50 | 24 | ||
Better than expected | 0 | 1 | ||
Maximum volume of liquid you would be able to consume | 0.5 L | 9 | 6 | 0.7 |
1 L | 27 | 27 | ||
2 L | 14 | 16 | ||
3 L | 0 | 1 | ||
Maximum volume (L) median (IQR) | 1 (1–2) | 1 (1–2) | 0.3 | |
What would discourage you most | Bad taste | 47 | 48 | 0.6 |
Bad smell | 0 | 2 | 0.1 | |
Too large liquid volume | 31 | 8 | < 0.0001 | |
Diarrhea | 7 | 19 | 0.006 | |
How easy or difficult was it to consume the study drugs | Very difficult | 11 | 0 | < 0.0001 |
Difficult | 29 | 6 | ||
Tolerable | 9 | 33 | ||
Easy | 1 | 11 | ||
If I had the choice, I would for next colonoscopy | Use a different purgative | 50 | 13 | < 0.0001 |
Use this purgative | 0 | 36 | ||
The overall experience of the preparation | Poor | 26 | 12 | < 0.0001 |
Bad | 12 | 0 | ||
Fair | 11 | 15 | ||
Good | 1 | 23 |