Table 3.

Studies reporting possible interventions for preventing post-tuberculosis lung function impairment and their main findings.

First author (year of publication), country, and study design	Category of intervention	Included interventions	Number of participants	Main findings
Ando M (2003), Japan, RCT	Pulmonary Rehabilitation	A 9-week pulmonary rehabilitation program	32	PRP appears to have merit when it is given to patients with post-TBC lung disorders
Grass DD (2014), South Africa, RCT	Pulmonary rehabilitation	A 6-week home-based pulmonary rehabilitation program that included cardiovascular exercises and walking.	67	PRP showed increasing trends towards lung function, but there was no statistical difference between the intervention and control groups
Jones R (2017), Uganda, RCT	Pulmonary rehabilitation	A 6-week pulmonary rehabilitation program consisted of exercise and education.	34	PRP was feasible and associated with clinically important improvements in respiratory outcomes, exercise capacity, and quality of life
Singh SM (2018), India, Prospective cohort	Pulmonary rehabilitation	An 8-week pulmonary rehabilitation program that included exercise and education.	29	Pulmonary function tests trended towards improvement with pulmonary rehabilitation but were not statistically significant
Vashakidze SA (2019), USA, Cross-sectional	Adjunctive surgical resection	Adjunctive lung surgery	54	Adjunctive surgery was significantly associated with improved lung function test
Xu Z (2021), China, RCT	Comprehensive nursing care	Comprehensive nursing intervention combined with respiratory functional exercises	150	Comprehensive nursing intervention combined with respiratory functional exercises can significantly improve pulmonary function
Orooj M (2023), India, RCT	pulmonary rehabilitation	A 4-week pulmonary rehabilitation program comprised of supervised exercise and education	90	Short-term PRP was insufficient to register changes in pulmonary function.
Ahmed S (2020), India, RCT	Pulmonary rehabilitation	12-week pulmonary rehabilitation program consisted of exercise training, breath retraining, and education.	62	PRP administered along with treatment improved lung function capacity.
Visca D (2019), Italy, Retrospective cohort	Pulmonary rehabilitation	3-week pulmonary rehabilitation programme including nurse training, exercises, relaxation, psychological support and nutritional counselling	43	PRP was effective in improving lung function capacity.