Tuberculosis Infections and Infestations Tuberculosis
Conditions
Interventions
This is a cluster randomised non blinded trial. Clusters are defined as a county or district. This is a four armed trial, three intervention arms and one control arm:
1. Mobile phone
Patients are prov
Sponsors
China Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. TB patients, smear-positive or smear-negative, recruited from the study clusters (county/district) 2. Willing to participate in the study 3. Conscious without any mental disease 4. Conscious without any visual, auditory or language impairment 5. At least 18 years old 6. Patient or family member is able to read a short message service (SMS)/ text and use medication monitor after training
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Does not meet inclusion criteria 2. Patients with tuberculosis pleurisy 3. Patients with no sputum smear data at tuberculosis diagnosis
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| The mean proportion of months a patient has at least 3 doses missed (this is based on pill count data from the medication monitor box) | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1. The mean proportion of months a patient has at least 7 doses missed 2. The mean proportion of overall missed doses 3. Proportion of patients defined as non-adherent (at least 10% of doses missed) 4. Proportion of patients defaulting during TB treatment 5. Proportion of smear positive TB cases who become smear negative at 2 months 6. The proportion of patients with treatment outcome of cure or completed treatment | — |
Countries
China
Outcome results
None listed