An Evaluation of Traditional Directly Observed Therapy (DOT) and Electronic DOT for TB Treatment

"Electronic DOT is the use of electronic communication methods to observe patients swallow anti-TB drugs and monitor for medication side effects. This study will use two variations of electronic communication methods, referred to as electronic directly observed therapy or eDOT. This includes: (1) eDOT conducted live in which TB program staff interact with patients via a computer or phone application as they ingest their medication (eDOT-live), and (2) eDOT conducted using time stamped, recorded videos in which TB program staff log into an electronic system and review videos recorded by patients in order to verify that patients ingested their medication doses as scheduled (eDOT-recorded)."

A trained person is in the physical presence of patients as anti-TB drugs are ingested.