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The Impact of Involving Informal Health Providers for Tuberculosis Control in Sudan

NCT01841541 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 380

Last updated 2013-04-26

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Training and engaging of unpaid informal providers (such as tea-sellers, women's groups, youth clubs, small traders and religious groups) from poorer localities in TB disease recognition, referral and community awareness raising will increase the access of TB patients to formal health facilities and decrease their delay in initiating TB treatment.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Referral of presumptive of TB cases by informal providers

Training of informal providers to effectively refer TB suspects in the community to the primary health care system

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • The Epidemiological Laboratory (EpiLab), Khartoum-Sudan.

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • The Norwegian Heart and Lung Patients Association (LHL)

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • S. Bertel ("Bertie") Squire, MB BChir, MD · Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
14 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-01-31
Primary Completion
2012-03-31
Completion
2012-04-30

Countries

  • Sudan

Study Locations

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Diseases

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