Conditional Cash Transfers to Incentivize Tuberculosis Screening: Description of a Novel Strategy for Contact Investigation in Rural South Africa.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Providing incentives to screen close contacts for tuberculosis (TB) is an alternative to household-based contact investigation. We aimed to characterize patients and contexts where this incentive-based strategy might be preferred.

Methods

This is a secondary analysis of a cluster randomized trial of TB contact investigation in Limpopo District, South Africa, conducted between 2016 and 2020. Twenty-eight clinics were randomly allocated to household-based vs incentive-based contact investigation. In the incentive-based arm, index participants and contacts received transport reimbursement and incentives for TB screening and microbiological diagnosis of contacts. We estimated differences in mean number of contacts per index participant with household-based vs incentiv

SUBMITTER: Baik Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8946721 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature