Table 2.
Patient assessment of endoscopy procedure (gastroscopy or colonoscopy), Geneva and Lausanne, Switzerland, 2000.
| Written and oral information | Oral information | P value | |
| Anxiety at time of procedure: | 0.66 | ||
| None | 68 (24.5) | 78 (26.1) | |
| Very slight | 65 (23.4) | 71 (23.7) | |
| Slight | 62 (22.3) | 64 (21.4) | |
| Moderate | 50 (18.0) | 51 (17.1) | |
| Strong | 33 (11.9) | 35 (11.7) | |
| How tolerable was procedure: | 0.76 | ||
| Very easy | 59 (21.3) | 68 (22.7) | |
| Quite easy | 89 (32.1) | 94 (31.4) | |
| Neither easy nor hard | 63 (22.7) | 69 (23.1) | |
| Quite hard | 48 (17.3) | 48 (16.1) | |
| Very hard | 18 (6.5) | 20 (6.7) | |
| Pain during procedure: | 0.20 | ||
| None | 115 (41.4) | 125 (41.8) | |
| Very slight | 51 (18.3) | 67 (22.4) | |
| Slight | 26 (9.4) | 38 (12.7) | |
| Moderate | 58 (20.9) | 45 (15.1) | |
| Strong | 28 (10.1) | 24 (8.0) | |
| Problems after procedure: | 0.22 | ||
| None | 207 (75.3) | 239 (80.2) | |
| Minor | 61 (22.2) | 52 (17.4) | |
| Moderate | 6 (2.2) | 6 (2.0) | |
| Severe | 1 (0.4) | 1 (0.3) | |
| Global assessment | 0.82 | ||
| Excellent | 98 (36.2) | 113 (38.2) | |
| Very good | 92 (33.9) | 98 (33.1) | |
| Good | 64 (23.6) | 62 (20.9) | |
| Fair | 12 (4.4) | 18 (6.1) | |
| Poor | 5 (1.8) | 5 (1.7) |