SMS Nudges as a Tool to Reduce Tuberculosis Treatment Delay and Pretreatment Loss to Follow-up: A Randomized Controlled Trial 2017-2018
South Africa, 2017 - 2018
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ZAF_2017_SMSTB-RCT_v01_M
SMS Nudges as a Tool to Reduce Tuberculosis Treatment Delay and Pretreatment Loss to Follow-up: A Randomized Controlled Trial 2017-2018
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| South Africa | ZAF |
Other Household Health Survey
Clinical data [cli]
Patient
Scope
The dataset includes: outcomes (whether the patient returned to get their TB test results and if so how quickly); information on demographics, education, housing, family circumstances etc.; intervention group assignment; HIV status; and whether the intervention was delivered correctly (an exclusion variable for the per-protocol analysis).
Coverage
3 clinics in Greater Cape Town
Producers and sponsors
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Adam Wagstaff | World Bank |
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Ronelle Burger | Stellenbosch University | Co-PI |
| Eddy Van Doorslaer | Erasmus University | Co-PI |
| Name |
|---|
| World Bank |
| South Africa Development Fund |
| WHO Strengthening Implementation Grant |
| Erasmus Trust Fund - Research for Health Impact in Africa |
| Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab |
| National Research Foundation SA |
Sampling
Patients not already being treated for TB arriving in TB waiting rooms of 3 clinics. Aimed to recruit > 90% of new patients over recruitment period. Inclusion criteria: Adult, provided consent, not already on treatment, waiting for a TB test or just had a TB test. Exclusion criteria: Adult, refused consent, already on treatment, not waiting for a TB test or just had a TB test. Recruitment was from 2 October 2017 until 15 December 2017. Fieldworkers continued visiting clinics and phoning patients until mid-February 2018 to collect data on patients’ return-to-clinic date, test results and treatment start date.
Survey instrument
CAPI interview at recruitment was based on a long questionnaire only a few questions from which were used in the present study. The questionnaire is therefore not attached to the current dataset.
Data collection
| Start | End |
|---|---|
| 2017-10-02 | 2018-02-14 |
Multiple fieldworkers were used overseen by a project coordinator overseen in turn by co-PI Prof. Ronelle Burger. Fieldworkers collected initial and follow-up data in tablets, and uploaded the data to a central server. The project coordinator undertook the randomization to the control and two treatment groups as described in the paper.
Initial data collected through CAPI interview at time of recruitment. Data on return-to-clinic date were obtained via fieldworker interactions with returning patients in the TB waiting room, conversations with clinic staff, and where necessary, phone follow-up conversations with patients and inspection of clinic records. HIV status was obtained by matching between our dataset and the PREHMIS and ETR.Net datasets as described in the paper. The data for the exclusion criteria for the per-protocol analysis were obtained from the records of the bulk SMS provider used to send the SMS messages,
Data processing
Data-cleaning was done by staff at Stellenbosch University and the World Bank.
Data Access
| Is signing of a confidentiality declaration required? | Confidentiality declaration text |
|---|---|
| yes |
Before being granted access to the dataset, all users have to formally agree: 1. To make no copies of any files or portions of files to which s/he is granted access except those authorized by the data depositor. 2. Not to use any technique in an attempt to learn the identity of any person, establishment, or sampling unit not identified on public use data files. 3. To hold in strictest confidence the identification of any establishment or individual that may be inadvertently revealed in any documents or discussion, or analysis. Such inadvertent identification revealed in her/his analysis will be immediately brought to the attention of the data depositor. |
- Public use files, accessible to all
Wagstaff, A. (World Bank), Ronelle Burger (Stellenbosch University), and Eddy Van Doorslaer (Erasmus University). 2019. SMS Nudges as a Tool to Reduce Tuberculosis Treatment Delay and Pretreatment Loss to Follow-up; A Randomized Controlled Trial (SMSTB-RCT) 2017-2018. REF: ZAF_2017_SMSTB-RCT_v01_M. Downloaded from [url] on [date].
Disclaimer and copyrights
The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.
Contacts
| Name | Affiliation | |
|---|---|---|
| Adam Wagstaff | World Bank | awagstaff@worldbank.org |
| Ronelle Burger | Stellenbosch University | rburger@sun.ac.za |
| Eddy van Doorslaer | Erasmus University Rotterdam | vandoorslaer@ese.eur.nl |
Metadata production
DDI_ZAF_2017_SMSTB-RCT_v01_M_WB
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Development Economics Data Group | The World Bank | Documentation of the DDI |
2019-03-27
Metadata version
Version 01 (March 2019)