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Testing Mediators and Moderators of a Fotonovela for Depression to Promote Help-seeking Behavior

NCT04319458 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 182

Last updated 2020-03-25

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Summary

Although rates of depression are similar in Latinx populations compared to non-Latinx whites (NLW), there are significant disparities in service utilization. Mental health literacy - one's knowledge and attitudes about mental health and treatment-seeking - is a significant predictor of help-seeking behavior and likely contributes to mental health disparities among Latinx. Understanding ways to improve mental health literacy in Latinx populations is important to reducing these disparities. Health literacy interventions that are engaging, dramatic, and culturally-relevant, such as fotonovelas (graphic novels designed to change health-related knowledge and attitudes), show promise in changing mental health literacy in Latinx populations. However, little is known about how these interventions work and for whom they are most effective. Furthermore, although there is some evidence that fotonovelas can change mental health attitudes and intent to seek treatment, their impact on help-seeking behavior is less understood. The purpose of this study is to examine 1) if narrative and cultural elements of a fotonovela for Latinx with depression (i.e., transportation, identification, and social proliferation) are important mediators in changing mental health attitudes and help-seeking behaviors and 2) if factors such as rurality, acculturation, depression severity and logistic barriers to treatment moderate these relationships.

Conditions

  • Mental Health Literacy

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Fotonovela

Secret Feelings/Sentimientos Secretos

BEHAVIORAL

Control

NIH Brochure: Depression: What You Need to Know

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of California, Los Angeles

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-03-01
Primary Completion
2020-08-30
Completion
2020-08-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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