Reducing Mental Health Disparities Among Latinxs With a Telenovela Intervention

NCT ID: NCT06163599

Last Updated: 2024-07-24

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: RECRUITING
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 100 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2024-07-01
• Study Completion Date: 2024-12-30

Brief Summary

The primary aim of our study is to determine the effectiveness of an transdiagnostic telenovela video intervention in reducing anxiety and depressive symptoms using a pre/post-test design with Spanish-speaking Latinxs.

Detailed Description

Telenovela video interventions are a low-resource, low-cost methodology developed to diminish the treatment-provider gap (Heilemann et al., 2017). Research shows that telenovela interventions represent an acceptable (Heilemann et al., 2018) and potent (Heilemann et al., 2017) intervention option for disseminating information to the Latinx population. Prior research utilizing transmedia telenovela interventions that include a telenovela component have demonstrated some effectiveness at reducing symptoms of anxiety and depression among Latinxs (Heilemann et al., 2017; Kajiyama et al., 2018) as have fotonovelas (Sanchez et al., 2019). To date researchers have not investigated how the telenovela approach combined with a transdiagnostic treatment paradigm might help reduce behavioral health disparities among Spanish-speaking Latinxs given that such an intervention would be easily disseminable and target the two most common disorders observed among this population. The primary aim of this study is to determine the effectiveness of an transdiagnostic telenovela video intervention in reducing anxiety and depressive symptoms using a pre/post-test design with Spanish-speaking Latinxs.

Conditions

Anxiety Disorders

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: OTHER
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Telenovela Arm

The UP telenovela (which is the experimental treatment arm) constitutes of nine videos depicting the main character, Esperanza, who is struggling with anxiety and depression, undergoing therapy involving the UP, and completing worksheets relating to the weekly therapy sessions.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Transdiagnostic Telenovela Intervention

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

The intervention constitutes nine videos depicting the main character, Esperanza, who is struggling with anxiety and depression, undergoing therapy involving the a trandiagnostic treatment, and completing worksheets relating to the weekly therapy sessions.

Interventions

Transdiagnostic Telenovela Intervention

The intervention constitutes nine videos depicting the main character, Esperanza, who is struggling with anxiety and depression, undergoing therapy involving the a trandiagnostic treatment, and completing worksheets relating to the weekly therapy sessions.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

1. 18 years or older

2. Identify as Latinx

3. Prefer behavioral health services in Spanish

4. Meet the DSM criteria for any mild to moderate anxiety disorder

5. Ownership of a smartphone

Exclusion Criteria

1. Suicidality

2. Psychosis

3. Bipolar disorder

4. Severe anxiety disorders

5. Severe depressive disorders

6. Homicidality

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

University of Nevada, Reno

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Locations

La Clinica @ the UNR Psychological Services Center

Reno, Nevada, United States

Site Status: RECRUITING

Countries

United States

Facility Contacts

Lorraine Benuto, PHD

Role: primary

dr.benuto@gmail.com

Role: backup

7757505726

Other Identifiers

1864886-2

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id