New in Town-Internet Intervention for Migrants

NCT ID: NCT04088487

Last Updated: 2020-11-13

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

TERMINATED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

178 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2020-01-14

Study Completion Date

2020-05-08

Brief Summary

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New in Town is an internet intervention for migrants that aims at increasing social self-efficacy. The study aim is to evaluate its effectiveness.

Detailed Description

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The number of migrants worldwide is growing rapidly over the past years. Migration often requires creating a whole new social network. There is something that can help migrants to do it-their beliefs. Social self-efficacy is confidence in ability to engage in social interactional tasks necessary to initiate and maintain interpersonal relationships. These beliefs are positively related to social adjustment and negatively related to acculturative stress, depression, and loneliness. Therefore, social self-efficacy may be potentially beneficial for the psychological adjustment of migrants helping them establish new connections in the social environment. Based on this observation the investigators have created New in Town, an internet intervention. Exercises in the intervention are based on the principles of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and relate to four sources of self-efficacy beliefs-mastery experiences, vicarious experiences, verbal persuasions, and emotional and physiological states.

The effectiveness of New in Town intervention will be tested in a two-arm randomized controlled trial with waitlist control group. Primary outcome is social self-efficacy, and secondary outcomes include loneliness, perceived social support, and satisfaction with life. Other measure of interest is system usability. Participants will be assessed at pre-test (T1), 3-week post-tests (T2), as well as 8-week follow-up (T3). The investigators aim to analyze the effect size of the intervention and between-groups comparisons at post-test and follow-up.

This study will provide insights into the effectiveness of an internet intervention in increasing social self-efficacy, perceived social support and satisfaction with life, and reducing loneliness.

Conditions

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Self Efficacy Loneliness Social Skills

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Experimental group

Participants gain access to the internet intervention after the baseline measurement (pre-test).

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

New in Town-Interner Intervention for Migrants

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

New in Town is an internet intervention for migrants that aims at increasing social self-efficacy. Exercises in the intervention are based on the principles of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and relate to four sources of self-efficacy beliefs-mastery experiences, vicarious experiences, verbal persuasions, and emotional and physiological states (Bandura, 1997).

Waitlist control group

Participants gain access to the internet intervention 8 weeks after the baseline measurement (pre-test).

Group Type OTHER

New in Town-Interner Intervention for Migrants

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

New in Town is an internet intervention for migrants that aims at increasing social self-efficacy. Exercises in the intervention are based on the principles of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and relate to four sources of self-efficacy beliefs-mastery experiences, vicarious experiences, verbal persuasions, and emotional and physiological states (Bandura, 1997).

Interventions

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New in Town-Interner Intervention for Migrants

New in Town is an internet intervention for migrants that aims at increasing social self-efficacy. Exercises in the intervention are based on the principles of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and relate to four sources of self-efficacy beliefs-mastery experiences, vicarious experiences, verbal persuasions, and emotional and physiological states (Bandura, 1997).

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* age of at least 18 years
* having changed the place of residence in the last 6 months

Exclusion Criteria

\- no access to a internet
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Anna Rogala, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities

Locations

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SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities

Warsaw, Warszawa, Poland

Site Status

Countries

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Poland

References

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Bandura, A. (1997). Self-efficacy: The exercise of control. Macmillan.

Reference Type BACKGROUND

Connolly, J. (1989). Social self-efficacy in adolescence: Relations with self-concept, social adjustment, and mental health. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science/Revue canadienne des sciences du comportement, 21(3), 258.

Reference Type BACKGROUND

Constantine MG, Okazaki S, Utsey SO. Self-concealment, social self-efficacy, acculturative stress, and depression in African, Asian, and Latin American international college students. Am J Orthopsychiatry. 2004 Jul;74(3):230-241. doi: 10.1037/0002-9432.74.3.230.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 15291700 (View on PubMed)

Diener E, Emmons RA, Larsen RJ, Griffin S. The Satisfaction With Life Scale. J Pers Assess. 1985 Feb;49(1):71-5. doi: 10.1207/s15327752jpa4901_13.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 16367493 (View on PubMed)

Gierveld, J. D. J., & Van Tilburg, T. (1999). Manual of the loneliness scale. Amsterdam: Department of Social Research Methodology.

Reference Type BACKGROUND

Łuszczyńska, A., Mazurkiewicz, M., Kowalska, M., & Schwarzer, R. (2006). Berlińskie skale wsparcia społecznego (BSSS): Wyniki wstępnych badań nad adaptacją skal i ich własnośnciami psychometrycznymi = Berlin social support scales (BSSS): Polish version of BSSS and preliminary results on its psychometric properties. Studia Psychologiczne, 44(3), 17-27.

Reference Type BACKGROUND

Sherer, M., Maddux, J. E., Mercandante, B., Prentice-Dunn, S., Jacobs, B., & Rogers, R. W. (1982). The self-efficacy scale: Construction and validation. Psychological reports, 51(2), 663-671.

Reference Type BACKGROUND

Smith, H. M., & Betz, N. E. (2000). Development and validation of a scale of perceived social self-efficacy. Journal of Career Assessment, 8(3), 283-301.

Reference Type BACKGROUND

Schrepp, M., Pérez Cota, M., Gonçalves, R., Hinderks, A., & Thomaschewski, J. (2017). Adaption of user experience questionnaires for different user groups. Universal Access in the Information Society, 16(3), 629-640.

Reference Type BACKGROUND

United Nations (2017). 2017 International Migration Report.

Reference Type BACKGROUND

Maj A, Matynia M, Michalak N, Bis A, Andersson G. New in Town-An internet-based self-efficacy intervention for internal migrants: A randomized controlled trial. PLoS One. 2024 Mar 7;19(3):e0299638. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0299638. eCollection 2024.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 38452136 (View on PubMed)

Rogala A, Szczepaniak M, Michalak N, Andersson G. Internet-based self-help intervention aimed at increasing social self-efficacy among internal migrants in Poland: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Internet Interv. 2020 Apr 23;21:100322. doi: 10.1016/j.invent.2020.100322. eCollection 2020 Sep.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 32328440 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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WP/2018/A/10

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id