Tokyo, Oct. 30 -- UMIN Clinical Trials Registry (UMIN-CTR) received information related to the study (UMIN000056371) titled 'Effectiveness of Mobile Phone Application to Improve Medical Outcome Among Tuberculosis Patients in Nepal - An Experimental Study.' on Oct. 30.
Study Type:
Interventional
Study Design:
Basic Design - Parallel
Randomization - Randomized
Blinding - Single blind -investigator(s) and assessor(s) are blinded
Control - Active
Primary Sponsor:
Institute - This study has no external sponsor.
Condition:
Condition - Infectious conditions
Classification by malignancy - Others
Genomic information - NO
Objective:
Narrative objectives1 - To improve medication adherence through the use of mobile application among tuberculosis patients in Nepal.
Basic objectives2 - Others
Intervention:
Interventions/Control_1 - Intervention Group: This group uses a mobile phone application designed to improve treatment adherence. The app sends daily text reminders to take medication and provides educational content about tuberculosis (TB) and its treatment.
Interventions/Control_2 - Control Group: This group receives educational content about TB and its treatment, but does not receive daily text reminders for medication.
Eligibility:
Age-lower limit - 18
years-old
Gender - Male and Female
Key inclusion criteria - The study population will be all newly diagnosed pulmonary TB patients 18-60 years within the first week of diagnosis.
Key exclusion criteria - This study will exclude the patients who are;
Refusing to participate in our study.
Those who do not have smartphone.
Patients with HIV/AIDS/critically ill.
Those who cannot read the text.
If patients involve in another interventional study.
Target Size - 260
Recruitment Status:
Recruitment status - Enrolling by invitation
Date of protocol fixation - 2024 Year 11 Month 30 Day
Date of IRB - 2025 Year 01 Month 10 Day
Anticipated trial start date - 2025 Year 01 Month 10 Day
Last follow-up date - 2025 Year 07 Month 30 Day
To know more, visit https://center6.umin.ac.jp/cgi-open-bin/ctr_e/ctr_view.cgi?recptno=R000064407
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