Tuberculosis
Conditions
Brief summary
It was hypothesized that tuberculosis patients receiving multiple interventions like educations, counseling and default tracing along with DOTS were more likely to adhere to tuberculosis treatment as compared to few interventions or DOTS only.
Interventions
OTHEReducation,counseling, default tracers,quality of care
these interventions were administered along with standard treatment i.e. DOTS at the time of standard follow up of patients at clinic
Sponsors
Gambat Institute of Medical Sciences
Study design
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* adult patient * \> 18years * either sex * diagnosed to have tuberculosis through chest x ray or sputum microscopy * eligible to participate in the study
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Proportion of patients cured | 8 months | Cured: If the patient was sputum smear positive (ss+ve) at the time of enrollment, completed treatment, Had negative smear on 2 occasions during follow-up |
| Proportion of patients completed treatment | 8 months | Treatment completed: SS+ve, or SS-ve or extra-pulmonary, had a negative smear result at the end of intensive phase but no smear result at the end of treatment completed 8 month treatment |
| Proportion of patients died | 8 months | died during the course of treatment |
| proportion of patients defaulted | 8 months | not collected drugs for more than 2 consecutive months either sputum smear positive or negative |
| proportion of patients with treatment failure | 8 months | Treatment failure: SS+ve, found to be smear positive at 5th month or later or SS-ve found to be smear positive at 2nd month |
| proportion of patients transferred out | 8 months | Transferred to another TB register |
Countries
Pakistan
Outcome results
None listed