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Register: PACTR
Last refreshed on: 29 May 2023
Main ID:  PACTR201411000910192
Date of registration: 13/10/2014
Prospective Registration: Yes
Primary sponsor: Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Public title: Triage Plus
Scientific title: Informal Health Provider and Practical Approach to Lung Health interventions to improve the detection of chronic airways disease and tuberculosis at primary care level in Malawi: A cluster level randomized controlled trial
Date of first enrolment: 01/01/2015
Target sample size: 27000
Recruitment status: Pending
URL:  https://pactr.samrc.ac.za/TrialDisplay.aspx?TrialID=910
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Parallel: different groups receive different interventions at same time during study,Randomised,Computer-generated randomization schedule with stratification by size of cluster,Allocation was determined by the holder of the sequence who is situated off site  
Phase:  Not Applicable
Countries of recruitment
Malawi
Contacts
Name: Hastings    Banda
Address:  Research for Equity & Community Health Trust, Off Paul Kagame Rd, Area 6,Plot6/28 Lilongwe Malawi
Telephone: +2651753260
Email: hastings@reachtrust.org
Affiliation: 
Name: Hastings    Banda
Address:  Off Paul Kagame Rd, rea 6, Plot 6/28 Lilongwe Malawi
Telephone: +2651753260
Email: hastings@reachtrust.org
Affiliation: 
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Inclusion criteria for health facilities
1. Health facilities that offer out-patient services only
2. Run by low low/middle level health care workers

Exclusion criteria: Exclusion criteria
1. Health facilities offering in-patient services
2. Health facilities run by qualified medical doctors


Age minimum: 15 Year(s)
Age maximum: 120 Year(s)
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

Tuberculosis
Chronic cough
Chronic cough
Tuberculosis
Intervention(s)
Intervention arm II
Standard of care
Intervention arm 1
Primary Outcome(s)
1.Proportion of the population with a chronic cough who have a diagnosis of TB or airway disease(s) recorded in their health passports
Secondary Outcome(s)
Proportion of people with disabilities with a diagnosis of TB or airway disease recorded in their health passports in all arms of the study.
Proportion of the population with a chronic cough on salbutamol / corticosteroid inhaler indicated in their health passports
Proportion of the population with a chronic cough with a diagnosis of TB or airway disease among patients with chronic cough attending primary health care recorded in patient registers at intervention facilities.
Secondary ID(s)
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Norwegian Heart and Lung Patient Association (LHL) International Tuberculosis Foundation (LHL International) and the Norwegian Government (NORAD)
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Status: Approved
Approval date: 27/09/2013
Contact:
College of Medicine Research Ethics Committee
Status: Approved
Approval date: 22/07/2014
Contact:
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine Research Ethics Committee
Results
Results available:
Date Posted:
Date Completed:
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