Treatment Adherence of Tuberculosis Medicines (TBAD)

Gambat Institute of Medical Sciences

Status: Completed

Conditions: Tuberculosis

Treatments: Other: education,counseling, default tracers,quality of care

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Industry

Identifiers

NCT01471977

TB

Details and patient eligibility

About

It was hypothesized that tuberculosis patients receiving multiple interventions like educations, counseling and default tracing along with DOTS were more likely to adhere to tuberculosis treatment as compared to few interventions or DOTS only.

Enrollment: 1,280 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• adult patient
• > 18years
• either sex
• diagnosed to have tuberculosis through chest x ray or sputum microscopy
• eligible to participate in the study

Exclusion Criteria:

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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1,280 participants in 1 patient group

education, counselling, default tracer

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: education,counseling, default tracers,quality of care