Reducing Mental Health Disparities Among Latinxs With a Telenovela Intervention

Anxiety Disorders Clinical Trial

Official title:

Reducing Mental Health Disparities Among Latinxs With a Telenovela Intervention

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Not yet recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT06163599
• Other study ID #: 1864886-2
• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: March 15, 2024
• Est. completion date: December 30, 2024

Study information

• Verified date: March 2024
• Source: University of Nevada, Reno
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial 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.

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.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Enrollment: 100
• Est. completion date: December 30, 2024
• Est. primary completion date: December 30, 2024
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

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

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Anxiety Disorders

Intervention

Behavioral:
• 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.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	La Clinica @ the UNR Psychological Services Center	Reno	Nevada

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Nevada, Reno

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7	Assesses the presence of anxiety symptoms in the past two weeks. Lower scores mean better outcomes. Scores range from 0 to 35.	Two weeks