Mobile Health for Implementation of Home-based TB Contact Investigation in Uganda
- Conditions
- Tuberculosis
- Registration Number
- PACTR201509000877140
- Lead Sponsor
- IH-NIAID
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 774
Index TB patients:
1. Reported to the NTLP by appearing in the NTLP TB treatment register, as one of the following: a)New microbiologically confirmed pulmonary TB patient; b) AFB sputum smear-positive; c)GeneXpert-positive; d)Mtb culture-positive; e) Child under 5 with newly diagnosed TB of any form even without microbiologic confirmation
2. Residing with the political boundaries of Kampala
3. Any age (including children and emancipated minors)
4. Any gender
Household contacts:
1. Sleeping under same roof as the index TB patient for >5 nights in the previous 3 months
2. Any age (including children and emancipated minors)
3. Any gender
Index TB patients:
1. Unable to provide informed consent (e.g. lacking capacity)
2. Unwilling to provide informed consent
3. MDR-TB patient (will be referred to the NTLP MDR-TB program for contact investigation)
4. No contacts living in the household or homeless
5. Previously enrolled in the study as a household contact
6. No access to a mobile telephone in the household
7. Not conversant in Luganda or English
8. Unwilling to participate for any reason after first consenting to screening
Household contacts:
1. Unable to provide informed consent (e.g. lacking capacity)
2. Unwilling to provide informed consent
3. Currently taking treatment for active TB
4. No access to a mobile telephone
5. Not conversant in Luganda or English
6. Unwilling to participate for any reason after first consenting to screening
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method