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Experiences and perceptions of lay counsellors and people with tuberculosis of a programme aimed at reducing alcohol drinking and tobacco smoking in South Africa

Not Applicable
Completed
Conditions
Reduction of alcohol and tobacco smoking and improving adherence in patients with tuberculosis
Not Applicable
Registration Number
ISRCTN14213432
Lead Sponsor
Medical Research Council of South Africa
Brief Summary

2020 Results article in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31233146/ (added 12/04/2022)

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Completed
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
45
Inclusion Criteria

1. Adults who were due to start TB treatment, or who had been on treatment for less than one month for the current TB episode for bacteriologically or clinically confirmed drug sensitive pulmonary TB (PTB)
2. Current smokers, defined as having smoked any tobacco in the past month or hazardous or harmful drinkers (Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test [AUDIT] score = 8 for men or = 7 for women and < 16 for hazardous drinking and between 16 and 19 for harmful drinking).

Exclusion Criteria

1. Did not possess a functioning cell phone
2. Too ill to be interviewed
3. Did not speak any of the languages used in the exit questionnaires (English, Isizulu, Sesotho, and Setswana)

Study & Design

Study Type
Interventional
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Recruitment and retention rates measured at the end of the 3rd MI session (approximately at 2 months follow-up) using patient records
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
<br> 1. LHWs’ experiences and perceptions using semi-structured interviews at the end of the 3rd MI session<br> 2. TB patients experiences and perceptions using semi-structured questionnaires at the end of the 3rd MI session<br> 3. MI fidelity using recorded MI sessions measured at the end of study by expert review<br>
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