PMID- 10186677
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 19981029
LR  - 20191024
IS  - 1078-4659 (Print)
IS  - 1078-4659 (Linking)
VI  - 2
IP  - 3
DP  - 1996 Summer
TI  - School-based tuberculosis testing and treatment program: comparing directly 
      observed preventive therapy with traditional preventive therapy.
PG  - 32-40
AB  - A high-school-based health center instituted a tuberculosis testing and treatment 
      program. Compliance of purified protein derivative (PPD) positive students with 
      isonicotine hydrazine (INH) preventive therapy was compared for two groups of 
      students: those in directly observed preventive therapy (DOPT) and those in 
      traditional therapy. Four hundred thirty six students were tested and 429 
      returned for a reading: 209 (49 percent) students had a positive PPD test. The 
      rate of positivity did not vary by age, sex, or years in the United States. There 
      was no relationship between bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccination and rate of 
      positivity or mean size of induration. The compliance rate for all courses of 
      DOPT was significantly higher (54 percent) than that for traditional therapy (26 
      percent). The compliance rates for the first and second attempts to complete a 
      course of DOPT was 71 percent. Completion of therapy did not differ by age, sex, 
      or years in the United States. Haitian students completed therapy more often than 
      students from Jamaica. We believe it is effective and efficient to base 
      tuberculosis testing and treatment with DOPT in the school setting.
FAU - Sass, P
AU  - Sass P
AD  - Department of Family Practice, State University of New York Health Science Center 
      at Brooklyn, USA.
FAU - Cooper, K
AU  - Cooper K
FAU - Robertson, V
AU  - Robertson V
LA  - eng
PT  - Clinical Trial
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PL  - United States
TA  - J Public Health Manag Pract
JT  - Journal of public health management and practice : JPHMP
JID - 9505213
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Analysis of Variance
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - *Mass Screening
MH  - New York City
MH  - Patient Compliance
MH  - Program Evaluation
MH  - *School Health Services
MH  - Survival Analysis
MH  - Tuberculin Test
MH  - Tuberculosis/drug therapy/*prevention & control
EDAT- 1997/02/01 00:00
MHDA- 1997/02/01 00:01
CRDT- 1997/02/01 00:00
PHST- 1997/02/01 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 1997/02/01 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 1997/02/01 00:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1097/00124784-199600230-00005 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Public Health Manag Pract. 1996 Summer;2(3):32-40. doi: 
      10.1097/00124784-199600230-00005.