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Register: PACTR
Last refreshed on: 29 May 2023
Main ID:  PACTR201105000297151
Date of registration: 15/05/2011
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: Human Sciences Research Council
Public title: Implementation and Monitoring of Screening and Brief Intervention(SBI) for Alcohol Use Disorders Among Tuberculosis Patients, South Africa
Scientific title: Screening and brief interventions for hazardous and harmful alcohol use among patients with active tuberculosis attending primary care clinics in South Africa: a cluster randomized controlled trial protocol
Date of first enrolment: 02/05/2011
Target sample size: 520
Recruitment status: Complete
URL:  https://pactr.samrc.ac.za/TrialDisplay.aspx?TrialID=297
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Parallel: different groups receive different interventions at same time during study,Randomised,Simple randomisation using randomisation created by computer software,Sealed opaque envelopes  
Phase:  Not Applicable
Countries of recruitment
South Africa
Contacts
Name: Karl    Peltzer
Address:  134 Pretorius Street 0002 Pretoria South Africa
Telephone: 012-3022000
Email: kpeltzer@hsrc.ac.za
Affiliation:  Human Sciences Research Council
Name: Karl     Peltzer
Address: 
Telephone: 012-3022000
Email: kpeltzer@hsrc.ac.za
Affiliation: 
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Primary Health Care Clinics
Clinics with a high TB case-load (based on statistics collected by the Department of Health) in each of the three study districts with a high burden of TB will be included in the study.

Patients with active TB
New tuberculosis treatment patients (i.e. those patients who have been initiated or have been on anti-TB treatment for less than one month),
males and females,
18 years and above who visit the primary health care facility,
score 8 or more for men and 7 or more for women on the AUDIT questionnaire after screening will be included in this study

Exclusion criteria: New tuberculosis treatment patients under the age of 18 years will not be included.
Individuals 18 years and older scoring less than 8 for men and less than 7 for women on the AUDIT questionnaire will be excluded from the study.
Women who are pregnant, patients already under treatment for alcohol misuse and patients who have symptoms of psychosis and who are mentally handicapped will be excluded


Age minimum: 18 Year(s)
Age maximum: 75 Year(s)
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

Tuberculosis
alcohol misuse
alcohol misuse
Tuberculosis
Intervention(s)
Brief alcohol counselling
Alcohol health information leaflet
Primary Outcome(s)
change in the mean score on the AUDIT in the last 3 months and mean number of heavy drinking days in the last month of the study period compared with baseline, as measured by the AUDIT.
Secondary Outcome(s)
Secondary ID(s)
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Department of Health
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Status: Approved
Approval date:
Contact:
HSRC Research Ethics Committee
012-3022006
Results
Results available:
Date Posted:
Date Completed:
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