Community intervention for child tuberculosis active contact investigation and management: study protocol for a parallel cluster randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There are major gaps in the management of pediatric tuberculosis (TB) contact investigation for rapid identification of active tuberculosis and initiation of preventive therapy. This study aims to evaluate the impact of a community-based intervention as compared to facility-based model for the management of children in contact with bacteriologically confirmed pulmonary TB adults in low-resource high-burden settings.

Methods/design

This multicenter parallel open-label cluster randomized controlled trial is composed of three phases: I, baseline phase in which retrospective data are collected, quality of data recording in facility registers is checked, and expected acceptability and feasibility of the intervention is assessed; II, intervention phase with enrolment of

SUBMITTER: Vasiliu A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7927252 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature