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CTRI Number  CTRI/2009/091/000962 [Registered on: 14/12/2009]
Last Modified On: 29/10/2018
Post Graduate Thesis  No 
Type of Trial  Interventional 
Type of Study
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Behavioral 
Study Design  Randomized, Parallel Group, Active Controlled Trial 
Public Title of Study
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A clinical trial to study the effects of Doctors advice to stop smoking in TB and HIV patients 
Scientific Title of Study
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Study to evaluate the effect of Physicians advice in quitting smoking in HIV and TB patients in South India - A Pilot study 
Trial Acronym   
Secondary IDs if Any
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Secondary ID  Identifier 
2007014  Other 
 
Details of Principal Investigator or overall Trial Coordinator (multi-center study)
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Name  DrSRameshkumar 
Designation   
Affiliation  National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis 
Address  Ward 62 (Upstairs)
Government Rajaji Hospital
Madurai
TAMIL NADU
625020
India 
Phone  04522534351  
Fax  04428362528  
Email  drrameshskumar@yahoo.co.in  
 
Details of Contact Person
Scientific Query

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Name  DrSRameshkumar 
Designation   
Affiliation  National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis 
Address  Ward 62 (Upstairs)
Government Rajaji Hospital
Madurai
TAMIL NADU
625020
India 
Phone  04522534351  
Fax  04428362528  
Email  drrameshskumar@yahoo.co.in  
 
Details of Contact Person
Public Query

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Name  DrSRameshkumar 
Designation   
Affiliation  National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis 
Address  Ward 62 (Upstairs)
Government Rajaji Hospital
Madurai
TAMIL NADU
625020
India 
Phone  04522534351  
Fax  04428362528  
Email  drrameshskumar@yahoo.co.in  
 
Source of Monetary or Material Support
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Fogarty AIDS International Training and Research Program (D43-TW000237) funded by U.S.National Institutes of Health 
 
Primary Sponsor
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Name  Tuberculosis Research Centre 
Address  National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis(Formerly Tuberculosis Research Centre) ICMR, No 1 Sathyamoorthy road Chetpet Chennai 
Type of Sponsor  Research institution and hospital 
 
Details of Secondary Sponsor  
Name  Address 
NIL   
 
Countries of Recruitment
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  India  
Sites of Study  
No of Sites = 1  
Name of Principal Investigator  Name of Site  Site Address  Phone/Fax/Email 
Dr.S.Ramesh Kumar  Madurai, Subcentre of Tuberculosis Research Centre  Ward 62,Government Rajaji Hospital-625020
Madurai
TAMIL NADU 
04522534351
04428362528
drrameshskumar@yahoo.co.in 
 
Details of Ethics Committee
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No of Ethics Committees= 1  
Name of Committee  Approval Status 
TRC Institutional Ethics Committee  Approved 
 
Regulatory Clearance Status from DCGI  
Status 
Not Applicable 
 
Health Condition / Problems Studied
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Health Type  Condition 
Patients  (1) ICD-10 Condition: F172||Nicotine dependence, (2) ICD-10 Condition: A150||Tuberculosis of lung, (3) ICD-10 Condition: B20||Human immunodeficiency virus [HIV]disease,  
 
Intervention / Comparator Agent
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Type  Name  Details 
Comparator Agent  Counseller's counselling and brochures provision   
Intervention  Physicians advice  Brief advise on smoking cessation explaining the problems of smoking with thier disease TB or HIV  
 
Inclusion Criteria
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Age From  18.00 Year(s)
Age To  80.00 Year(s)
Gender  Both 
Details  HIV group:

Inclusion criteria
1. HIV positive (ELISA / Rapid test - Reactive)
2. May or may not have TB.
3. Eighteen years or older
4. Willing to give informed consent
5. Current Smoker
6. Willing to undergo carbon monoxide monitor test


TB group:
Inclusion criteria
1. Newly detected pulmonary tuberculosis (Sputum AFB - positive)
2. Eighteen years or older
3. Willing to give informed consent
4. Current Smokers
5. Willing to undergo carbon monoxide monitor test
 
 
ExclusionCriteria 
Details  Exclusion criteria(both HIV and TB group) 1. People who do not understand Tamil language. 2. People who have idea of relocating to another geographic area within the study period 3. Severely ill / moribund status  
 
Method of Generating Random Sequence
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Stratified block randomization 
Method of Concealment
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Sequentially numbered, sealed, opaque envelopes 
Blinding/Masking
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Open Label 
Primary Outcome
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Outcome  TimePoints 
Smoking Cessation  1 month after intervention 
 
Secondary Outcome
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Outcome  TimePoints 
NIL  NIL 
 
Target Sample Size
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Total Sample Size="160"
Sample Size from India="160" 
Final Enrollment numbers achieved (Total)= "160"
Final Enrollment numbers achieved (India)="160" 
Phase of Trial
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N/A 
Date of First Enrollment (India)
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15/03/2010 
Date of Study Completion (India) 29/03/2012 
Date of First Enrollment (Global)  Date Missing 
Date of Study Completion (Global) Date Missing 
Estimated Duration of Trial
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Years="2"
Months="0"
Days="0" 
Recruitment Status of Trial (Global)
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Not Applicable 
Recruitment Status of Trial (India)  Completed 
Publication Details
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None Yet 
Individual Participant Data (IPD) Sharing Statement

Will individual participant data (IPD) be shared publicly (including data dictionaries)?  

Brief Summary
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Smoking is one of the major public health problems globally. Smokers who are also infected HIV develop additional risks, in addition to the general health consequences of smoking and also morbidity and mortality is higher in pulmonary tuberculosis patients with smoking.The study is a randomized clinical trial to determine the efficacy of Physician's advise strategy in quitting smoking in patients with HIV and patients with TB and to compare its efficacy rate with that of counselor counseling and administering a brochure with study materials. The primary outcome measure will be smoking cessation rate at 1 month after intervention. 
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