Providing sustainable household contact tracing and screening for tuberculosis patients and families: a cluster randomised trial in Blantyre, Malawi (PACTS)

Malawi National Tuberculosis Programme (Malawi)0 个研究点目标入组 428 人开始时间: 2012年7月19日最近更新: 2022年9月19日

适应症

试验速览

2022 Results article in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36074775/ (added 09/09/2022)

•1. Pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) patients registering at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH), Malawi
•2. Self-report of one or more under 5 year old household contact
•3. Residence within Blantyre
•4. Able and willing to provide written consent to participate in the study, including a 3 month household visit
•5. If an inpatient: likely to be discharged within a two week period
•Contacts will be defined as members of the same household (defined as sharing meals) or other residents of the same dwelling who share physical space such as sleeping or living rooms. Participation by contacts will be through oral consent, using a patient information leaflet.

•1. Unable or unwilling to provide informed consent
•2. Hospitalised patients who are unlikely to be discharged within a two week period (e.g due to retreatment requiring on TB treatment, and if transferred in and out of QECH)
•3. Membership of a household that has already been recruited into the study

发起方

Malawi National Tuberculosis Programme (Malawi)