RCT for Latina Mental Health Using Web-Based Apps

a study on Mental Health Anxiety Depression

Summary

Eligibility
for females ages 18 years and up (full criteria)
Healthy Volunteers
healthy people welcome
Location
at Los Angeles, California
Dates
study started
study ends around
Principal Investigator
by MarySue V. Heilemann, PhD,RN,FAAN

Description

Summary

This study compares a choice-driven, interactive, evidence-informed storytelling web-based app intervention with links to resources and treatment (Tx) recommendations (made by a character via her blog) and Tx locator, to a web-based app with links to publicly available informational internet videos, MH resources, and a treatment locator for at least moderately anxious/depressed untreated English and Spanish speaking Latinas to determine if a story-based, character-driven approach is more effective for catalyzing mental health treatment initiation.

Official Title

Randomized Controlled Trial of a Choice-driven, Interactive, Storytelling Web-based App to Investigate Mental Health Treatment Initiation Among Symptomatic Latinas

Keywords

Mental Health, Anxiety, Depression, Well-Being, Psychological, Latina, Women, Therapy, Catalina, Catalina transmedia web-based app, Links to informational videos

Eligibility

You can join if…

Open to females ages 18 years and up

  • Latina (women who are from or have family ties to Latin America)
  • Currently resides in LA or Orange County
  • Age 18 and older
  • Able to speak, read, and write in English or Spanish
  • Score 10 or higher on GAD-7 and/or PHQ-8
  • Access to the internet via smartphone, tablet, or computer
  • Not currently receiving mental health therapy or pharmacotherapy
  • Has not accessed mental health services during the previous 6 months

You CAN'T join if...

  • Not Latina or Hispanic
  • Under age 18

Location

  • UCLA accepting new patients
    Los Angeles California 90095 United States

Lead Scientist at UCLA

Details

Status
accepting new patients
Start Date
Completion Date
(estimated)
Sponsor
University of California, Los Angeles
ID
NCT06874790
Study Type
Interventional
Participants
Expecting 700 study participants
Last Updated