Clinical trials: Contact Tracing
Chlamydia Infections
Partner Notification for Chlamydia in Primary Care
The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of partner notification by general practice nurses with referral to a specialist clinic for people with genital chlamydia diagnosed in a community setting.
- Trial name
- NCT00112255
- Testing
- Practice nurse-led partner notification, Referral to specialist genitourinary clinic
- Where
- 2 sites in United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 214 people
- Sponsor
- University of Bristol
Tuberculosis
Cali Sin Tos Aim 2
The overall objective of this Aim is to design and iteratively adapt a home-based, mHealth- and oral testing facilitated strategy for implementing tuberculosis (TB) contact tracing in Cali, Colombia.
- Trial name
- NCT06338462
- Testing
- Chatbot, Oral testing
- Where
- Colombia
- Volunteers
- 269 people
- Sponsor
- Yale University
Human Immunodeficiency Virus
Package of Resources for Assisted Contact Tracing: Implementation, Costs, and Effectiveness
Having health workers assist HIV-infected persons with the recruitment and testing of their sexual contacts and biological children is an effective and efficient way of identifying additional HIV-infected persons in need of HIV…
- Trial name
- PRACTICE (NCT05343390)
- Testing
- Enhanced implementation package, Standard implementation package
- Where
- 33 sites in Malawi
- Volunteers
- 841 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Diagnosis, Tuberculosis
Active Close Contact Investigation of Tuberculosis Through Computer-aided Detection and Stool Xpert MTB/RIF Among People Living in Ethiopia
Tuberculosis is the 13th cause of death from all causes, infecting roughly the 25% of the world population, and Ethiopia is listed among the 30 high-burden countries both for TB and for HIV/TB.
- Conditions
- Diagnosis, Tuberculosis, geneXpert
- Trial name
- CADOOL (NCT05818059)
- Testing
- Diagnosis of Tuberculosis with computer-aided detection (CAD) software
- Where
- Ethiopia
- Volunteers
- 231 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Doctors with Africa - CUAMM
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary, Households
Acceptability and Feasibility of Home-based TB Testing
This study aims to evaluate the utility of home-based point-of-care TB testing for early diagnosis and linkage to care of household contacts of TB patients, addressing the need for active case finding and early detection of…
- Trial name
- NCT04973371
- Testing
- Home-based point-of-care (POC) TB testing using GeneXpert device + MTB/RIF test
- Where
- South Africa
- Volunteers
- 98 people
- Sponsor
- Foundation for Professional Development (Pty) Ltd
Latent Tuberculosis Infection
QuantiFERON®-TB Gold In-Tube for the Diagnosis of Tuberculosis Infection in Contact Tracing Study.
Hypothesis: a combined strategy of tuberculin skin test (TST) followed by QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube (QFT-IT) to confirm positivity (tuberculosis infection,in contact-tracing study will allow avoiding unnecessary preventive…
- Trial name
- OPTIMIST (NCT01223534)
- Testing
- Preventive treatment with Isoniazid., Preventive treatment with Isoniazid
- Where
- Spain
- Volunteers
- 871 people
- Sponsor
- Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge
Tuberculosis Infection
Intensifying Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis Contact Tracing by Social Network Analysis
Tuberculosis burden in Vietnam increasing with contribution from low detection rates and increased drug resistance. There is a need to identify MDR-TB (MultiDrug Resistant Tuberculosis) among both notified TB cases and their…
- Trial name
- SNAP (NCT02175849)
- Where
- Vietnam
- Volunteers
- 596 people
- Sponsor
- Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Vietnam
Tuberculosis
Community-based Tuberculosis Tracing and Preventive Therapy
The many gaps observed in the cascade of care of tuberculosis (TB) child contacts occur mostly in the screening, preventive therapy (PT) initiation and PT completion steps and the main drivers of these gaps are considered to be…
- Trial name
- CONTACT (NCT03832023)
- Testing
- Screening and initiating preventive therapy in communities
- Where
- 25 sites in Cameroon, Uganda
- Volunteers
- 1,400 people
- Sponsor
- Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
Tuberculosis Infection, Latent, Tuberculosis Active
SCAF-TB - Saving Children and Their Families From Tuberculosis: Implementation Research to Improve TB Preventive Treatment Initiation and Completion Rates Among Contact Persons in Tajikistan and Tanzania
The SCAF-TB study aims to evaluate how the WHO-endorsed SIILTIBCY skin test can be best implemented to test close contacts for tuberculosis infection (TBI) in Tajikistan and Tanzania, either facility-based or home-based delivered…
- Conditions
- Tuberculosis Infection, Latent, Tuberculosis Active, TPT
- Trial name
- SCAF-TB (NCT07714707)
- Testing
- CY-TB Patch, Audiblehealth DX
- Where
- 2 sites in Tajikistan, Tanzania
- Volunteers
- 880 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation
HIV Infections, Partner Communication
Impart: Provider-Assisted HIV Partner Notification
Researchers will conduct a 2-arm pilot randomized controlled trial with HIV-infected index patients recruited from two all-male prisons in Indonesia to assess the acceptability and feasibility of provider-assisted HIV partner…
- Trial name
- NCT04155320
- Testing
- IMPART, Standard Care
- Where
- Indonesia
- Volunteers
- 55 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Illinois at Chicago
COVID-19, SARS-CoV 2
Network-Targeted Strategies for Efficient Community SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Sampling
The primary objective is to use "network targeted sampling design" to detect active and/or undiagnosed cases of COVID-19 in the community and determine the spread or distribution of 1) active infection, and 2) past exposure.
- Trial name
- Snowball (NCT04437706)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 602 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Duke University
Chlamydia
Home-sampling in Partner Notification of Chlamydia
Though partner notification is mandatory to perform of Chlamydia trachomatis infected individuals in Sweden, there was a 10-15% annually increase of reported cases between 1997 and 2007 indicating that partner notification may…
- Trial name
- NCT01596946
- Testing
- Contact tracing mode test at clinic, Self-sampling at home - Sent Test Kit
- Where
- Sweden
- Volunteers
- 633 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Ostergotland County Council, Sweden
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
The "Notijoves" Randomised Controlled
Background: Increase of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) as well as increased use of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) among young people in Catalonia triggers the idea of designing a mobile phone…
- Trial name
- notijoves (NCT03986567)
- Testing
- gamification for partner notification among youngsters
- Where
- Spain
- Volunteers
- 416 people
- Sponsor
- Fundacio d'Investigacio en Atencio Primaria Jordi Gol i Gurina
Contact Tracing
Partner Notification Intervention for STD Clinics.
To help public health professionals (DIS) in interviews of patients infected with STD for the names of their sex partners, this project used a computer-based partner elicitation program before the actual DIS interview.
- Trial name
- NCT00207571
- Testing
- Computer
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 150 people
- Sponsor
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
A Multilevel, Tailored COVID-19 Testing Condition, A Nontailored COVID-19 Testing Control Condition
A Faithful Response to COVID-19 Project
This 2-arm clustered, randomized community trial will test a multilevel, COVID-19 testing and linkage to care (eg, health insurance, medical appointments, community resources, contact tracing) intervention against a nontailored…
- Trial name
- FR (NCT04978207)
- Testing
- A Faithful Response to COVID-19
- Where
- 10 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 1,013 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Missouri, Kansas City
HIV
Prison-Based HIV Partner Notification
Assisted partner notification (APN) is a voluntary and confidential process that utilizes specially-trained health workers to encourage and assist people diagnosed with HIV to inform their sex and drug use partners about possible…
- Trial name
- NCT07103928
- Testing
- Impart Assisted Partner Notification, Self-Tell Notification
- Where
- Indonesia
- Volunteers
- 216 people
- Sponsor
- University of Illinois at Chicago
Tuberculosis, Latent Tuberculosis
Use TST and QFT-RD1 Test to Monitor the Tuberculous Infection in Patients, Close Contact People and Health Care Workers
Tuberculosis is still the most common infectious disease in Taiwan. The infants in Taiwan have been vaccinated at birth with BCG -Tokyo 171 strain since 1951.
- Conditions
- Tuberculosis, Latent Tuberculosis, Tuberculosis Contact, Elderly
- Trial name
- NCT00311220
- Testing
- tuberculin for skin test
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 300 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Taichung Veterans General Hospital
Tuberculosis
Comparison of Diagnostic Performance of C-Tb to QuantiFERON®-TB, in Combination With a Safety Assessment of C-Tb vs Tuberculin PPD RT23 SSI
Tuberculosis (TB) continues to be the most important bacterial infection worldwide and therefore new improved diagnostic tests are needed to help doctors in diagnosing TB. We are investigating a new skin test named C-Tb.
- Trial name
- NCT01631266
- Testing
- C-Tb, 2 T.U. Tuberculin PPD RT 23 SSI
- Where
- 13 sites in Spain
- Volunteers
- 979 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Statens Serum Institut