Status:
COMPLETED
Rewards for Tuberculosis Contact Screening
Lead Sponsor:
Boston University
Collaborating Sponsors:
University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
City of Johannesburg
Conditions:
Tuberculosis
Drug-resistant Tuberculosis
Eligibility:
All Genders
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
This pilot project is an evaluation of the feasibility, acceptability, and cost of offering an economic reward, in the form of a shopping voucher, to the household contacts of index patients (outpatie...
Detailed Description
Despite the success of antiretroviral treatment (ART) programs in reaching \> 10 million HIV-infected patients in resource-limited countries over the past decade, HIV and tuberculosis (TB), continue t...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Inclusion criteria for index cases:
- Adult patients (\>18 years)
- Newly diagnosed with pulmonary TB (drug-susceptible or drug-resistant) or initiating treatment for TB at one of the study sites
- Exclusion criteria for index cases:
- Resident outside the site's permissible catchment area for service delivery
- No household contacts (live alone)
- Admitted for inpatient care immediately following their TB diagnosis, and thus not readily able to distribute the referral cards
- Not physically, mentally, or emotionally able to participate in the study, in the view of study staff
- Previously enrolled in the same study
- Declines to provide written informed consent to participate
- Unable to speak any of the languages for which consent documents are available and not accompanied by person who can
- Inclusion criteria for contacts:
- Usually spend at least 4 nights per week in the same household as an index case
- Can provide referral card given to contact by index patient
- Exclusion criteria for contacts:
- Currently on any type of TB treatment
- Not able to present any form of identification that matches the information on the referral card
- Previously enrolled in the same study
- Declines to provide written informed consent to participate
- Unable to speak any of the languages for which consent documents are available and not accompanied by person who can
- Inclusion criteria for interview respondents:
- Experience with the intervention as provider or patient
- Written informed consent to be interviewed
- Exclusion criteria for contacts:
- • None
Exclusion
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
October 1 2014
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
December 1 2016
Estimated Enrollment :
301 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT02234908
Start Date
October 1 2014
End Date
December 1 2016
Last Update
January 8 2021
Active Locations (2)
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1
Helen Joseph Hospital
Johannesburg, South Africa, 2193
2
OR Tambo Clinic
Johannesburg, South Africa