Effect of Community Mobile Outreach Approach Compared to Facility Based Directly Observed Treatment Short Course on Treatment Outcome Among Tuberculosis Patients in Jeddah: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Ministry of Health, Saudi Arabia

Status: Completed

Conditions: Tuberculosis

Treatments: Procedure: Mobile Outreach Approach

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03787914

H-02-J-002-00877

Details and patient eligibility

About

To compare the effectiveness of the community mobile outreach approach in improving treatment outcomes (success rate) among tuberculosis patients with those being treated with facility based directly observed treatment short course (DOTS) in Jeddah region.

Enrollment: 200 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Newly diagnosed TB cases

Exclusion criteria

• Visitors having TB especially pilgrims

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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200 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention arm

Experimental group

Description:

Intervention arm patients were served by outreach mobile teams for oral anti-TB treatment under DOTS at the place of their convenience by health care professionals

Treatment:

Procedure: Mobile Outreach Approach

Control arm

Active Comparator group

Description:

Control arm patients were given the traditional facility based DOTS treatment. Control arm was not served by the outreach mobile teams.

Treatment:

Procedure: Mobile Outreach Approach