Patient interest in video recording of colonoscopy: A survey

Table 1 Patient interest in owning a DVD of their colonoscopy

		Interested	Not Interested	P
Age in years, mean (SD)		57.8 (12.8)	58.7 (12.8)	0.66
Gender	F	90 (85)1	16 (15)1	0.21
	M	110 (79)1	30 (21)1
Own DVD player	Y	193 (81)1	44 (19)1	0.78
	N	7 (78)1	2 (22)1
Prior Colonoscopy	Y	151 (83)1	31 (17)1	0.28
	N	50 (77)1	15 (23)1
History of Polyps	Y	100 (82)1	22 (18)1	0.81
	N	101 (82)1	24 (19)1
History of CRC	Y	9 (90)1	1 (10)1	0.48
	N	192 (81)1	45 (19)1
FH of CRC	Y	47 (84)1	9 (16)1	0.57
	N	153 (81)1	37 (19)1

SD: Standard deviation; F: Female; M: Male; Y: Yes; N: No; DVD: Digital video disc; FH: Family history; CRC: Colorectal cancer.

¹Number (percent).

Table 2 The reasons for interest or lack interest in having a videorecording n (%)

Reasons for interest in videorecording
Review	68 (27)
Better records	55 (22)
Better information (more data, better image, better understanding)	43 (17)
Comparison	37 (15)
Follow-up (includes baseline information, follow changes, reference for next procedure)	24 (10)
Research/educational tool	16 (6)
Interesting	11 (4)
Second opinion	9 (4)
Medical-legal	1 (< 1)
Can take videorecording along if relocating	2 (1)
Reasons for lack of interest in videorecording
No benefit over pictures, no benefit, not useful	32 (13)
Don’t see need, trust physician expertise	7 (3)
No opinion	3 (1)

Table 3 Predictors of stated willingness to pay for a video recording (univariate analysis)

		Willing to pay	Not willing to pay	P	Odds ratio (95% CI)
Gender	F	72 (68)1	34 (32)1	0.18	1.44 (0.85, 2.44)
	M	84 (60)	57 (40)
DVD player	Yes	152 (64)	86 (36)	0.25	2.21 (0.58, 8.45)
	No	4 (44)	5 (56)
Prior colonoscopy	Yes	116 (63)	67 (37)	0.96	1.01 (0.56, 1.82)
	No	41 (63)	24 (37)
History of polyps	Yes	72 (59)	51 (41)	0.12	0.66 (0.4, 1.12)
	No	85 (68)	40 (32)
History of CRC	Yes	9 (90)	1 (10)	0.11	5.47 (0.68, 43.92)
	No	148 (62)	90 (38)
FH of CRC	Yes	43 (75)	14 (25)	0.03	2.09 (1.07, 4.09)
	No	113 (59)	77 (41)
Age, mean (SD)		55.9 (12.7)	61.4 (13.9)	0.002	1.39 (1.12-1.72)2

¹Number of patients (%);

²Odds ratio for a 10-year decrease in age.

Table 4 Amounts patients were willing to pay for a video recording (univariate analysis)

		Amount willing to pay, considering only those willing to pay		Amount willing to pay, considering all patients
		mean ($) (SD)	P	mean ($) (SD)	P
Gender	F	112.2 (288.7)	0.11	76.2 (243.2)	0.06
	M	55.4 (128.2)		32.9 (102.2)
DVD player	Yes	83.4 (221.8)	0.63	53.1 (181.3)	0.51
	No	30 (13.5)		13.3 (17.9)
Prior colonoscopy	Yes	89.2 (249.4)	0.46	56.5 (202.8)	0.46
	No	59.6 (74.6)		37.3 (65.5)
History of polyps	Yes	90.3 (270.1)	0.65	52.6 (210.3)	0.93
	No	74.3 (164.6)		50.5 (139.9)
History of CRC	Yes	353.9 (634.6)	0.001	318.5 (608.7)	0.0001
	No	64.9 (154)		40.3 (125.2)
FH of CRC	Yes	92.3 (177.1)	0.72	69.6 (158.5)	0.39
	No	78.2 (233.7)		46.3 (183.7)
Age		Correlation	P	Correlation	P
		0.07	0.40	0.01	0.92

EGC: EGD and colonoscopy.