Simple Verbal Intervention for Adequately Collecting Sputum

Seoul National University

Status and phase: Unknown; Phase 4

Conditions: Suspicious for Pulmonary Tuberculosis

Treatments: Behavioral: control; Behavioral: education by brochure

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01135043

acceptable_sputa

Details and patient eligibility

About

simple verbal intervention with figure of lung and upper respiratory tract will be helpful to adequately collecting sputum.

and in the acceptable specimen based on Gram stain, positivity for AFB stain and culture rate will be higher.

Full description

suspicious patients for pulmonary tuberculosis are randomized to control or education group. patients in education group will be educated with the brochure that contains figure of lung/upper respiratory tract and methods of collecting sputum.

Enrollment: 188 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• age > 18 years
• 2009.7~2010.7 patients with suspicious pulmonary tuberculosis who visited Boramae Hospital

Exclusion criteria

• on medication for tuberculosis
• patients who medicated with fluoroquinolone within 1month
• patients without consciousness or patients who cannot expectorate sputum
• hemoptysis over 50cc per day
• patients who don't consent on the study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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188 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

education

Experimental group

Description:

educated with the brochure that contains figure of lung/upper respiratory tract and methods of collecting sputum.

Treatment:

Behavioral: education by brochure

control

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

patients with control group are educated about methods of collecting sputum by a physician, only in verbal explanation without brochure.

Treatment:

Behavioral: control