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Tools to facilitate preventive therapy for children and adolescents in primary care.

Award Number: R03HD113830
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/01/2024
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 08/31/2026

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Tools to facilitate preventive therapy for children and adolescents in primary care. - SUMMARY Children and adolescents exposed to tuberculosis (TB) in their homes (i.e. household contacts) are at high risk for developing active TB disease if they do not receive TB preventive treatment (TPT). The management of child and adolescent household contacts is hampered by the low sensitivity of bacteriological diagnostic tools and limited accessibility of chest-x ray (CXR) in primary care settings of low- and middle-income countries. Primary care physicians, who typically manage household contacts, will not prescribe TPT if they cannot decide whether a contact has TB disease. There is a need for tools to help primary care physicians distinguish between child and adolescent household contacts who require further evaluation for active TB disease and those who can safely initiate TPT immediately. CXR is important for detecting incipient lesions of TB disease, but capacity for CXR is limited in primary care settings in low- and middle-income countries. Even in those places where CXR can be accessed, there is not enough capacity among primary care physicians to correctly interpret the radiological findings. Our proposal will (1) derive a risk score to predict CXR abnormalities among child and adolescent household contacts and (2) evaluate the performance of computer-aided detection (CAD) software for detecting CXR abnormalities in children and adolescents contacts. The risk score, meant to aid clinicians in places with limited CXR capacity, will be derived using data from a previous cohort study of 6001 contacts 0-19 years old. We will consider 21 candidate predictors that can be collected easily during a simple clinical evaluation. Primary care physicians will be able to use this risk score to identify children and adolescents who should be referred for further evaluation with CXR, and can prescribe TPT to the rest. For settings that have access to CXR but where primary care physicians lack expertise in reading CXRs for TB, we will evaluate the performance of three CAD software systems among children and adolescents: CAD4TB version 7 (Delft Imaging), qXR version 3.0 (qure.ai), and INSIGHT CXR version 3.1.0.0 (Lunit Inc). These systems have largely been validated in adults but not children and younger adolescents. Using 1600 stored radiographs from a large-scale community screening program, we will perform a receiver operating characteristic analysis for each CAD software using a pulmonologist’s decision of CXR abnormality as the reference standard. We will compare performance among systems and between children and adolescents. This research will contribute to the development of simple tools that facilitate the clinical decision-making of primary care physicians to prescribe TPT. Increasing the prescription of TPT to child and adolescent household contacts will reduce the incidence of TB and TB-associated mortality among children and adolescents worldwide, helping to achieve the goals of End TB Strategy.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2025 ( Subtotal = $0 )
2025	2024	SOCIOS EN SALUD SUCURSAL PERU	AV. JAVIER PRADO ESTE 492, INTERIOR 2701, SAN ISIDRO, LIMA, LIMA	LIMA				PER	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	1	11/20/2024	NEW	$0
														Subtotal = $0

Issue Date FY: 2024 ( Subtotal = $106,318 )
2024	2024	SOCIOS EN SALUD SUCURSAL PERU	AV. JAVIER PRADO ESTE 492, INTERIOR 2701, SAN ISIDRO, LIMA, LIMA	LIMA				PER	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	1	8/28/2024	NEW	$106,318
2024	2024	SOCIOS EN SALUD SUCURSAL PERU	AV. JAVIER PRADO ESTE 492, INTERIOR 2701, SAN ISIDRO, LIMA, LIMA	LIMA				PER	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	001	1	9/4/2024	NEW	$0
														Subtotal = $106,318

Grand Total All Awards = $106,318

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Tools to facilitate preventive therapy for children and adolescents in primary care.

Award Number: R03HD113830

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/01/2024

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 08/31/2026

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