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Simple Verbal Intervention for Adequately Collecting Sputum

NCT01135043 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: PHASE4 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 188

Last updated 2010-06-02

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

simple verbal intervention with figure of lung and upper respiratory tract will be helpful to adequately collecting sputum.

and in the acceptable specimen based on Gram stain, positivity for AFB stain and culture rate will be higher.

Conditions

  • Suspicious for Pulmonary Tuberculosis

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

education by brochure

educated with the brochure that contains figure of lung/upper respiratory tract and methods of collecting sputum.

BEHAVIORAL

control

patients with control group are educated about methods of collecting sputum by a physician, only in verbal explanation without brochure

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Seoul National University Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Chang-Hoon Lee, MD · Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul Metropolitan Government, Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-07-31
Primary Completion
2010-06-30
Completion
2010-09-30

Countries

  • South Korea

Study Locations

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