Assessing the usefulness of a psycho-social intervention for persons with TB and their caregivers

An integrated psycho-social intervention to improve self- efficacy towards treatment uptake and infection prevention among patients and family caregivers. A multi- centric implementation research study - NIL

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Phase 2

Study type

Interventional

Source

CTRI

Registry ID

CTRI/2024/05/066847

Enrollment

547

Registered

2024-05-06

Start date

Unknown

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2024-05-27

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Conditions

Health Condition 1: J708- Respiratory conditions due to other specified external agents

Interventions

Intervention1: Self- efficacy driven psycho-social intervention: The intervention is a psycho-social support package for persons with TB and their caregivers. The intervention package consists

Eligibility

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Adult drug sensitive TB patients ( 18 years of age and above) who are initiated treatment for TB Patients with low treatment self-efficacy Adult DR-TB & MDR-TB patients on shorter regimen Caregivers of the adult DS TB and DR TB shorter regimen patients with low self-efficacy &

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Patients undergoing longer MDR-regimen Younger than 18 years of age

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
We will use patients self efficacy score and will estimate an adjusting for timing of assessment, with self-efficacy driven intervention arm as the exposure of interest.Timepoint: Baseline Midline & Endline	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
For secondary outcome we will use & patient’s adherence, loss to follow up rate & treatment outcome as reported by NTEP as a binary outcomeTimepoint: Baseline, 8th Week, 26th week.	—

Countries

India

Contacts

Public ContactKarikalan Nagarajan

ICMR-ICMR- National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis

drkarikalan82@gmail.com7299226582

Outcome results

None listed

Source: CTRI (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 15, 2026