Patient questionnaire outcomes
| Category | Moviprep 2 days | Senna & Citramag 2 days | Plenvu 2 days | Plenvu 1 day | P value |
| 1: The bowel preparation was pleasant to taste | |||||
| Strongly agree | 18 (9%) | 13 (12%) | 8 (5%) | 7 (10%) | <0.001 |
| Agree | 106 (51%) | 68 (64%) | 69 (46%) | 25 (35%) | |
| Neither agree or disagree | 27 (13%) | 6 (6%) | 9 (6%) | 10 (14%) | |
| Disagree | 26 (13%) | 11 (10%) | 33 (22%) | 16 (23%) | |
| Strongly disagree | 30 (14%) | 8 (8%) | 30 (20%) | 13 (18%) | |
| 2: The volume (amount of preparation) to drink was acceptable | |||||
| Strongly agree | 15 (7%) | 17 (16%) | 11 (7%) | 14 (20%) | <0.001 |
| Agree | 124 (60%) | 81 (76%) | 103 (70%) | 39 (55%) | |
| Neither agree or disagree | 12 (6%) | 2 (2%) | 8 (5%) | 3 (4%) | |
| Disagree | 48 (23%) | 4 (4%) | 22 (15%) | 11 (15%) | |
| Strongly disagree | 8 (4%) | 2 (2%) | 4 (3%) | 4 (6%) | |
| 3: The instructions were easy to follow | |||||
| Strongly agree | 133 (64%) | 69 (65%) | 115 (77%) | 55 (77%) | 0.02 |
| Agree | 69 (33%) | 31 (29%) | 30 (20%) | 15 (21%) | |
| Neither agree or disagree | 3 (1%) | 2 (2%) | 3 (2%) | 1 (1%) | |
| Disagree | 2 (1%) | 4 (4%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | |
| Strongly disagree | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 1 (1%) | 0 (0%) | |
| 4: If you have taken bowel preparation before, did you rate if better than last time? | |||||
| Yes/better | 29 (41%) | 17 (38%) | 19 (46%) | 6 (38%) | 0.94 |
| Same | 21 (30%) | 16 (36%) | 9 (22%) | 4 (25%) | |
| No/worse | 20 (29%) | 12 (27%) | 13 (32%) | 6 (38%) | |
| 5: Did you manage to complete (drink) all the preparation? | |||||
| Yes | 193 (94%) | 101 (96%) | 147 (99%) | 64 (98%) | 0.08 |
| No | 13 (6%) | 4 (4%) | 2 (1%) | 1 (2%) | |
| 6: Since starting the bowel preparation, how much other fluid did you drink? | |||||
| None | 5 (2%) | 1 (1%) | 1 (1%) | 2 (3%) | <0.001 |
| Less than 1 L | 18 (9%) | 4 (4%) | 11 (7%) | 6 (8%) | |
| About 1 L | 45 (22%) | 12 (11%) | 32 (21%) | 16 (23%) | |
| 1–2 L | 71 (34%) | 29 (27%) | 43 (29%) | 29 (41%) | |
| More than 2 L | 68 (33%) | 60 (57%) | 62 (42%) | 18 (25%) | |
| 7: Did you experience any side effects*? | |||||
| Yes | 61 (29%) | 37 (35%) | 64 (43%) | 34 (48%) | 0.01 |
| No | 146 (71%) | 69 (65%) | 85 (57%) | 37 (52%) | |
P values reaching statistical significance are shown in bold.
*Nausea/vomiting, abdominal cramps, dizziness, anal soreness and other.