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Trial reportMicrobiology spectrum2024

Effect of smoking cessation interventions on abstinence and tuberculosis treatment outcomes among newly diagnosed patients: a randomized controlled trial.

Muhammad Tahir Khan, Sidra Zaheer, Washdev Amar, Kashif Shafique

Open access · goldAbstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in Microbiology spectrum, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 33% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Muhammad Tahir KhanSchool of Public Health, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan.ORCID 0000-0002-0281-7650
Sidra ZaheerSchool of Public Health, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan.
Washdev AmarDr. A. Q. Khan Institute of Behavioral Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan.
Kashif ShafiqueSchool of Public Health, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan.
Dow University of Health Sciences · PK

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The study evaluates the effectiveness of smoking cessation interventions [Behavioral Change Communication (BCC) and Behavioral Change Communication plus bupropion (BCC+)] compared to conventional Directly Observed Therapy Short Course (DOT) treatment in improving pulmonary tuberculosis treatment outcomes and abstinence among newly diagnosed pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) patients, highlighting the scarcity of robust experimental studies. The current randomized controlled trial, conducted at Ojha Institute of Chest Diseases between October 2017 and June 2019, randomized 292 patients who were current smokers with newly diagnosed pulmonary tuberculosis into three arms: control ( This study shows that adding smoking cessation programs (with or without extra drugs like bupropion) to standard Directly Observed Treatment Short Course (DOTs) treatment for people who have recently been diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis has a great positive impact on how well the overall antituberculosis treatment works. Our trial shows very promising results for such a combined therapy (DOTs and smoking cessation) in a country where the burden of both tuberculosis and smoking is very high.

Indexed as

Smoking CessationTuberculosisTuberculosis, PulmonaryBupropionHumansSmokingTreatment OutcomeBupropionbehavioral change communicationsmoking cessation interventionssmoking treatment outcomestuberculosis

Identifiers

PMID38385711
PMCPMC10986535
OpenAlexW4392044828

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