A feasibility study evaluating the uptake, effectiveness and acceptability of routine screening of pregnant migrants for latent tuberculosis infection in antenatal care: a research protocol.
File(s)e058734.full.pdf (394.52 KB)
Published version
Author(s)
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Globally, tuberculosis (TB) is a leading cause of death in women of reproductive age and there is high risk of reactivation of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) in pregnancy. The uptake of routine screening of migrants for LTBI in the UK in primary care is low. Antenatal care is a novel setting which could improve uptake and can lend insight into the feasibility and acceptability of offering opt-out screening for LTBI. METHODS AND ANALYSIS: This is an observational feasibility study with a nested qualitative component. The setting will be the antenatal clinics in three hospitals in East London, UK . Inclusion criteria are pregnant migrant women aged 16-35 years attending antenatal clinics who are from countries with a TB incidence of greater than 150/100 000 including sub-Saharan Africa, and who have been in the UK for less than 5 years. Participants will be offered LTBI screening with an opt-out interferon gamma release assay blood test, and be invited to complete a questionnaire. Both participants and healthcare providers will be invited to participate in semistructured interviews or focus groups to evaluate understanding, feasibility and acceptability of routine opt-out LTBI screening. The primary analysis will focus on estimating the uptake of the screening programme along with the corresponding 95% CI. Secondary analysis will focus on estimating the test positivity. Qualitative analysis will evaluate the acceptability of offering routine opt-out LTBI screening to participants and healthcare providers. ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION: The study has received the following approvals: Health Research Authority (IRAS 247388) and National Health Service Ethics Committee (19/LO/0557). The results will be made available locally to antenatal clinics and primary care physicians, nationally to NHS England and Public Health England and internationally through conferences and journals. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: NCT04098341.
Date Issued
2022-04-04
Date Acceptance
2022-03-02
Citation
BMJ Open, 2022, 12 (4), pp.1-7
ISSN
2044-6055
Publisher
BMJ Journals
Start Page
1
End Page
7
Journal / Book Title
BMJ Open
Volume
12
Issue
4
Copyright Statement
© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2022. Re-use permitted under CC BY. Published by BMJ. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits others to copy, redistribute, remix, transform and build upon this work for any purpose, provided the original work is properly cited, a link to the licence is given, and indication of whether changes were made. See: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits others to copy, redistribute, remix, transform and build upon this work for any purpose, provided the original work is properly cited, a link to the licence is given, and indication of whether changes were made. See: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Sponsor
Medical Research Council (MRC)
National Institute for Health Research
Identifier
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35379641
PII: bmjopen-2021-058734
Grant Number
MR/R015600/1
NIHR200908
Subjects
Antenatal
Public health
Tuberculosis
Adolescent
Adult
Feasibility Studies
Female
Humans
Latent Tuberculosis
Observational Studies as Topic
Pregnancy
Prenatal Care
State Medicine
Transients and Migrants
Young Adult
Publication Status
Published
Coverage Spatial
England
OA Location
https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/12/4/e058734
Date Publish Online
2022-04-04