Digital Health Intervention to Improve TPT Uptake

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Conditions studied: Tuberculosis, Pulmonary

In brief

Despite the evidence of the prevention and control measures of tuberculosis (TB), it still has an impact on the health, social, and economic aspects of the population. Specifically, tuberculosis in children and newly diagnosed TB cases show there is current transmission of TB; to reduce this transmission and to attain the end TB strategy, preventing household TB transmission plays a great role. However, initiation and completion of TB preventive therapy (TPT) among close contacts of index TB patients are suboptimal. Some of the identified factors of low TPT initiation and completion are insufficient patient education, inadequate understanding of TPT, health professionals' perception, parental knowledge, and belief. The digital health intervention is currently being studied as a suggested health intervention that improves the utilization of health care services, including treatment adherence. A systematic review shows that TB treatment outcomes improved with the use of patient education, counseling, text reminders, and digital health technologies. However, other literature indicates controversial results, including our systematic review result, which identified that video directly observed therapy and text message (digital intervention) have no significant effect on TPT completion. In addition, the studies are scarce; therefore, this study aims to assess the effect of video-based education intervention combined with text message reminder (digital health intervention) in improving the initiation and completion of TPT among close contacts of drug-sensitive pulmonary TB patients in South Ethiopia. The study hypothesizes that digital health intervention for close contacts of index drug-sensitive pulmonary TB patients will lead to higher TPT initiation and completion rates than standard care.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT07313995

Run by

Arba Minch University

People needed

304

Starts

2026-05-22

Expected to finish

2027-01-22

Last updated by the study team

2026-07-24

Who can join

Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• All household and close contacts of drug-sensitive pulmonary TB patients
• Living in the catchment area of the selected health facility
• Willing to stay for at least 4 months in the catchment area

You may not qualify if…

• Individuals with a known allergy to TPT drugs or those contraindicated for TPT drugs
• Close contacts screened as symptomatic for TB
• Close contacts with drug-resistant TB
• Temporary residents staying for less than 4 months

Where it is running

• Sawula General Hospital and Sawula Health Center — Sawula, Goffa Zone, South Ethiopia, Ethiopia (enrolling)
• Arba Minch General Hospital and Dilfana Primary Hospital — Arba Minch, South Ethiopia, Ethiopia

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