Do Instructional Videos on Sputum Submission Result in Increased Tuberculosis Case Detection? A Randomized Controlled Trial.

We examined the effect of an instructional video about the production of diagnostic sputum on case detection of tuberculosis (TB), and evaluated the acceptance of the video.Randomized controlled trial.We prepared a culturally adapted instructional video for sputum submission. We analyzed 200 presump...

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Main Authors: Grace Mhalu, Jerry Hella, Basra Doulla, Francis Mhimbira, Hawa Mtutu, Helen Hiza, Mohamed Sasamalo, Liliana Rutaihwa, Hans L Rieder, Tamsyn Seimon, Beatrice Mutayoba, Mitchell G Weiss, Lukas Fenner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4587748?pdf=render