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Last refreshed on: 19 February 2015
Main ID:  NCT01841541
Date of registration: 24/04/2013
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Public title: The Impact of Involving Informal Health Providers for Tuberculosis Control in Sudan Triage-Plus
Scientific title: Triage Plus for TB: Improving Community-Based Provision for TB in Africa. The Impact of Involving Informal Health Providers for Tuberculosis Control in Sudan
Date of first enrolment: January 2009
Target sample size: 380
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT01841541
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Health Services Research  
Phase:  N/A
Countries of recruitment
Sudan
Contacts
Name:     S. Bertel ("Bertie") Squire, MB BChir, MD
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Affiliation:  Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Access point for health seeking by the poor and vulnerable

- Active and well known in community

- Intervention activities can be confined to intervention area

- Based in community/locality

- Longevity; long standing

- Present in control and intervention areas

- Able and willing to complete the training to be Triage-Plus providers (ie giving
formal consent)

Exclusion Criteria:

- Formal health providers, e.g. clinics, labs, hospitals (MOH, NGO or private)

- Internationally funded organizations, e.g. international NGOs

- Civil servants e.g. teachers



Age minimum: 14 Years
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Tuberculosis
Intervention(s)
Behavioral: Referral of presumptive of TB cases by informal providers
Primary Outcome(s)
Total number of TB patients registered and start receiving treatment in formal health care facilities [Time Frame: 12 months]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Secondary ID(s)
11.03RS
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
The Epidemiological Laboratory (EpiLab), Khartoum-Sudan.
The Norwegian Heart and Lung Patients Association (LHL)
Ethics review
Results
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