Mobile Tuberculosis Treatment Support Tools to Increase Treatment Success in Patients with Tuberculosis in Argentina: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Tuberculosis (TB) is an urgent global health threat and the world's deadliest infectious disease despite being largely curable. A critical challenge is to ensure that patients adhere to the full course of treatment to prevent the continued spread of the disease and development of drug-resistant disease. Mobile health interventions hold promise to provide the required adherence support to improve TB treatment outcomes.

Objective

This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of the TB treatment support tools (TB-TSTs) intervention on treatment outcomes (success and default) and to assess patient and provider perceptions of the facilitators and barriers to TB-TSTs implementation.

Methods

The TB-TSTs study is an open-label, randomized controlled trial with 2 pa

SUBMITTER: Iribarren S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8277351 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature