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.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
1,280
these interventions were administered along with standard treatment i.e. DOTS at the time of standard follow up of patients at clinic
Basic Medical Unit of Taluka Gambat
Khairpur, Sindh, Pakistan
Proportion of patients cured
Cured: If the patient was sputum smear positive (ss+ve) at the time of enrollment, completed treatment, Had negative smear on 2 occasions during follow-up
Time frame: 8 months
Proportion of patients completed treatment
Treatment completed: SS+ve, or SS-ve or extra-pulmonary, had a negative smear result at the end of intensive phase but no smear result at the end of treatment completed 8 month treatment
Time frame: 8 months
Proportion of patients died
died during the course of treatment
Time frame: 8 months
proportion of patients defaulted
not collected drugs for more than 2 consecutive months either sputum smear positive or negative
Time frame: 8 months
proportion of patients with treatment failure
Treatment failure: SS+ve, found to be smear positive at 5th month or later or SS-ve found to be smear positive at 2nd month
Time frame: 8 months
proportion of patients transferred out
Transferred to another TB register
Time frame: 8 months
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