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Study NCT ID: NCT00005742
Status: COMPLETED
Last Update Posted: 2016-02-29
First Post: 2000-05-25

Brief Title: Behavioral Interventions for Control of Tuberculosis
Sponsor: National Heart Lung and Blood Institute NHLBI
Organization: National Heart Lung and Blood Institute NHLBI

Study Overview

Official Title: None
Status: COMPLETED
Status Verified Date: 2005-05
Last Known Status: None
Delayed Posting: No
If Stopped, Why?: Not Stopped
Has Expanded Access: False
If Expanded Access, NCT#: N/A
Has Expanded Access, NCT# Status: N/A
Acronym: None
Brief Summary: To develop and test various educational strategies targeting primarily minority TB-infected adolescents at two health centers in Los Angeles in an experimental design to assess the relative effectiveness on medication adherence appointment keeping and completion of therapy
Detailed Description: BACKGROUND

Tuberculosis was on the decline from the mid 1950s until the mid 1980s however the United States is now experiencing a resurgence of tuberculosis In 1992 approximately 27000 new cases were reported an increase of about 20 percent from 1985 to 1992 Not only are tuberculosis cases on the increase but a serious aspect of the problem is the recent occurence of outbreaks of multidrug resistant MDR tuberculosis which poses an urgent public health problem and requires rapid intervention

Control programs involve two major components First and of highest priority is to detect persons with active tuberculosis and treat them with effective antituberculosis drugs which prevents death from tuberculosis and stops the transmission of infection to other persons Treatment of active tuberculosis involves taking multiple antituberculosis drugs daily or several times weekly for at least six months Failure to take the medications for the full treatment period may mean that the disease is not cured and may recur If sufficient medications are not prescribed early and taken regularly the tuberculosis organism can become resistant to the drugs and the drug resistant tubercuosis then may be transmitted to other persons Drug resistant disease is difficult and expensive to treat and in some cases cannot be treated with available medications

The second major goal of control efforts is the detection and treatment of persons who do not have active tuberculosis but who have latent tuberculosis infection These people may be at high risk of developing active tuberculosis The only approved treatment modality for preventive therapy requires treatment daily or twice weekly for a minimum of six months and many patients do not complete the full course of therapy Public and patient programs are needed to increase the awareness of the problems associated with tuberculosis control

The study is part of the NHLBI initiative Behavioral Interventions for Control of Tuberculosis The concept for the initiative originated from the National Institutes of Health Working Group on Health and Behavior The Request for Applications was released in October 1994

DESIGN NARRATIVE

The educational content and modalities were based on an intervention-oriented model of behavioral action derived from the theory of reasoned action the theory of planned behavior and the transtheoretical model An experimental four group design was used to assess the independent and combined effects of peer counseling a participantparent contingency contract intervention and a combination of peer counseling and contingency contracting compared with a usual care control group

Beginning July 15 1996 a total of 794 participants were recruited and randomly assigned to one of the four groups In addition to assessing the impact of the intervention analyses compared the relative importance of the hypothesized influencing and mediating factors on behavior Cost-effectiveness analyses were also conducted During the later stages of the study clinic staff from throughout Los Angeles County were trained and encouraged to integrate the strategies that appeared to be effective into their clinic setting

The study completion date listed in this record was obtained from the End Date entered in the Protocol Registration and Results System PRS record

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Secondary IDs
Secondary ID Type Domain Link
R01HL055770 NIH None httpsreporternihgovquickSearchR01HL055770