Parent Study Name: Pulmonary Rehabilitation to Reduce Post-Tuberculosis Morbidity (TB Pure)

Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age18+
SponsorJohns Hopkins University

About this trial

Individual-level, unblinded randomized controlled trial of an 8-week (short arm) or 24-week (extended arm) pulmonary rehabilitation program, relative to standard of care, to prevent post-tuberculosis respiratory morbidity. Randomization will occur in a 1:1:1 ratio at the initiation of treatment.

Eligibility criteria

Qualifiers

Age at least 18 years

Microbiologically confirmed (smear microscopy, GeneXpert or culture) pulmonary TB disease*

Not completed more than 2 weeks of TB treatment

Receiving TB care at the outpatient clinics at the TB PuRe study sites

Disqualifiers

Modified Medical Research Council score of 0 points (dyspnea only with strenuous exercise)

Multi or extensively drug-resistant TB disease*

Extrapulmonary TB disease at any clinical sites without pulmonary involvement

TB meningitis or TB of the spine

Trial design

Treatments tested in this trial

  • 8 week (short arm) Intervention - pulmonary rehabilitation
  • 24 week (long arm) Intervention - pulmonary rehabilitation

Treatment groups

690 Participants
are divided into 3 treatment groups

Sponsors and collaborators

Johns Hopkins University

Lead sponsor

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)

Collaborator