Improving Community Based Tuberculosis Care in Ethiopia (community)

University of Bergen

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pulmonary Tuberculosis

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00803322

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Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to see if involving community health workers improves tuberculosis case finding and treatment outcome.

Full description

Tuberculosis suspects in the study area

Outcome smear positive tuberculosis cases identified smear positive tuberculosis cases treated

Enrollment: 318 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• suspects of pulmonary tuberculosis

Exclusion criteria

• not in the study area

Trial design

318 participants in 2 patient groups

1

Description:

communities where tuberculosis patients followed the conventional health facility based tuberculosis case finding and treatment

2

Description:

community where suspects of pulmonary tuberculosis were identified by community health workers and received treatment in the community