Aims: To investigate the effectiveness of an educational film intervention on the quality of bowelcleanliness of outpatients receiving colonoscopy examinations and also to understand the related factorsaffecting bowel cleanliness.
Method: This is a quasi-experimental design. One hundred four patients in the experimental group and 114patients in the control group are the participants in this study. An 8-minute “Preparation for BowelCleanliness” educational film wasmade based on clinical experience and references to related literature.Weadopted a valid Aronchick scale evaluate bowel cleanliness.
Results: The patients in the experimental group had significantly better bowel cleanliness compared to thecontrol group (80.8% vs. 48.2%, p b .001). Logistic regression showed that the experimental group, gender,and experience with colonoscopy were potentially important factors that may affect bowel cleanliness.Conclusions: The “Preparation for Bowel Cleanliness” educational film provides simple and easy-to-followmethods for the preparation of cleaning the colon and related information.
