Reducing Stigma and Increasing Treatment Seeking Intentions Among Adolescents

NCT ID: NCT06222528

Last Updated: 2024-09-04

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

1200 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2024-06-03

Study Completion Date

2024-08-17

Brief Summary

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Depression is a leading cause of illness and disability in teenagers. Longer duration of untreated depression (DUD) is associated with greater severity, poorer outcome, and cognitive impairment. Stigma toward people with depression has been identified as a barrier to seeking help; therefore, reducing stigma toward young people at depressive risk could enhance their receptivity to seeking treatment. Social contact is a form of interpersonal contact with members of the stigmatized group and the most effective type of intervention for improvement in stigma-related knowledge and attitudes.

In a prior study, the investigators developed short video interventions to reduce stigma and increase treatment seeking among adolescents with depression. The videos feature adolescent protagonists varied by race/ethncitiy and gender (Black girl, Black boy, White girl, White boy, Hispanic girl, Hispanic boy, nonbinary or transgender adolescent) who will share their experiences with depression, challenges, and recovery process. The investigators would like to conduct a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to test the efficacy of these tailored videos as compared to a video control condition (which provides information about depression and how to seek help but does not include a personal story) on reducing self-stigma and increasing help-seeking intentions and behavior at baseline, post, 2 week follow-up, and 4 week follow-up among adolescents ages 14-18 recruited via Cloudresearch. The videos will be shown again at 2 week follow-up.

Detailed Description

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In a randomized control trial (RCT) with pre-, post-intervention, and 2 and 4 week follow-up assessments, the investigators aim to test the efficacy of brief social contact video interventions, varying protagonist race/ethnicity, as compared to video control in reducing depression related stigma and increasing treatment-seeking intentions and behavior among adolescents ages 14-18 recruited via Cloudresearch, a crowdsourcing platform. The control condition will include a video that will provide information about depression and how to seek help but does not include a personal story. The tailored video interventions will be assigned based on participant demographics and will include adolescent protagonists varied by race/ethnicity and gender (Black girl, Black boy, White girl, White boy, Hispanic girl, Hispanic boy, nonbinary or transgender adolescent). Videos will be shown at baseline and 2 week follow-up. The investigators hypothesize that 1) Brief social contact-based video interventions will reduce stigma towards depression and increase treatment-seeking intentions and behavior compared to video control which provides information about depression and help seeking but does not include a personal story.

Conditions

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Stigma, Social Mental Health Disorder Adolescent Behavior Depression

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Participants

Study Groups

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Brief video intervention (Black Girl)

A brief social contact-based video with a Black girl protagonist

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Brief video intervention (Black Girl)

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

A brief social contact-based video. The video presented a young Black girl, a professional actor, sharing her scripted personal story of struggles with depression and raising themes of recovery and hope.

Brief video intervention (Black Boy)

A brief social contact-based video with a Black boy protagonist

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Brief video intervention (Black Boy)

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

A brief social contact-based video. The video presented a young Black boy, a professional actor, sharing his scripted personal story of struggles with depression and raising themes of recovery and hope.

Brief video intervention (Latinx Girl)

A brief social contact-based video with a Latinx girl protagonist

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Brief video intervention (Latinx Girl)

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

A brief social contact-based video. The video presented a young Latinx girl, a professional actor, sharing her scripted personal story of struggles with depression and raising themes of recovery and hope.

Brief video intervention (Latinx Boy)

A brief social contact-based video with a Latinx boy protagonist

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Brief video intervention (Latinx Boy)

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

A brief social contact-based video. The video presented a young Latinx boy, a professional actor, sharing his scripted personal story of struggles with depression and raising themes of recovery and hope.

Brief video intervention (White Girl)

A brief social contact-based video with a White girl protagonist

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Brief video intervention (White Girl)

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

A brief social contact-based video. The video presented a young White girl, a professional actor, sharing her scripted personal story of struggles with depression and raising themes of recovery and hope.

Brief video intervention (White Boy)

A brief social contact-based video with a White boy protagonist

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Brief video intervention (White Boy)

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

A brief social contact-based video. The video presented a young White boy, a professional actor, sharing his scripted personal story of struggles with depression and raising themes of recovery and hope.

Brief video intervention (Nonbinary or transgender)

A brief social contact-based video with a nonbinary or transgender protagonist

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Brief video intervention (Nonbinary or transgender)

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

A brief social contact-based video. The video presented a young nonbinary or transgender adolescent, a professional actor, sharing their scripted personal story of struggles with depression and raising themes of recovery and hope.

Control

A brief video control condition with psychoeducation on depression and help seeking

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Control Condition

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

A video that will provide information about depression and how to seek help but does not include a personal story.

Interventions

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Brief video intervention (Black Girl)

A brief social contact-based video. The video presented a young Black girl, a professional actor, sharing her scripted personal story of struggles with depression and raising themes of recovery and hope.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Brief video intervention (Black Boy)

A brief social contact-based video. The video presented a young Black boy, a professional actor, sharing his scripted personal story of struggles with depression and raising themes of recovery and hope.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Brief video intervention (Latinx Girl)

A brief social contact-based video. The video presented a young Latinx girl, a professional actor, sharing her scripted personal story of struggles with depression and raising themes of recovery and hope.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Brief video intervention (Latinx Boy)

A brief social contact-based video. The video presented a young Latinx boy, a professional actor, sharing his scripted personal story of struggles with depression and raising themes of recovery and hope.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Brief video intervention (White Girl)

A brief social contact-based video. The video presented a young White girl, a professional actor, sharing her scripted personal story of struggles with depression and raising themes of recovery and hope.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Brief video intervention (White Boy)

A brief social contact-based video. The video presented a young White boy, a professional actor, sharing his scripted personal story of struggles with depression and raising themes of recovery and hope.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Brief video intervention (Nonbinary or transgender)

A brief social contact-based video. The video presented a young nonbinary or transgender adolescent, a professional actor, sharing their scripted personal story of struggles with depression and raising themes of recovery and hope.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Control Condition

A video that will provide information about depression and how to seek help but does not include a personal story.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Ages 14-18
* English speaking
* US Residents

Exclusion Criteria

* Age less than 14 or greater than 18
* Non-English speaking
* Non-US Resident
Minimum Eligible Age

14 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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New York State Psychiatric Institute

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Doron Amsalem

Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

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New York State Psychiatric Institute

New York, New York, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

References

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Griffiths KM, Christensen H, Jorm AF, Evans K, Groves C. Effect of web-based depression literacy and cognitive-behavioural therapy interventions on stigmatising attitudes to depression: randomised controlled trial. Br J Psychiatry. 2004 Oct;185:342-9. doi: 10.1192/bjp.185.4.342.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 15458995 (View on PubMed)

Elhai JD, Schweinle W, Anderson SM. Reliability and validity of the Attitudes Toward Seeking Professional Psychological Help Scale-Short Form. Psychiatry Res. 2008 Jun 30;159(3):320-9. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2007.04.020. Epub 2008 Apr 22.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 18433879 (View on PubMed)

de Vreede T, Andel SA, de Vreede GJ, Spector P, Singh V, Padmanabhan B. What is engagement and how do we measure it? Toward a domain independent definition and scale. Proceedings of the 52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. 2019, Hawaii. p. 749-758.

Reference Type BACKGROUND

Clement S, Brohan E, Jeffery D, Henderson C, Hatch SL, Thornicroft G. Development and psychometric properties the Barriers to Access to Care Evaluation scale (BACE) related to people with mental ill health. BMC Psychiatry. 2012 Jun 20;12:36. doi: 10.1186/1471-244X-12-36.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 22546012 (View on PubMed)

Brenner RE, Colvin KF, Hammer JH, Vogel DL. Using Item Response Theory to Develop Revised (SSOSH-7) and Ultra-Brief (SSOSH-3) Self-Stigma of Seeking Help Scales. Assessment. 2021 Jul;28(5):1488-1499. doi: 10.1177/1073191120958496. Epub 2020 Sep 25.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 32975438 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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8317

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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