Addressing the Mental Health and Emotional Well-being of Immigrants Through a Scalable Intervention

Not Applicable

Recruiting

• Conditions: Well-being; Mental Health

• Registration Number: NCT06652711
• Lead Sponsor: University of Texas at Austin

Brief Summary

We will study the impacts of offering access to an emotional well-being phone app to Hispanic U.S. immigrants in psychological distress. Our primary outcome is participants' psychological well-being.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2024-06
• Study Start: 2024-09-20
• Study First Submitted: 2024-10-18
• Study First Submitted QC: 2024-10-21
• Last Update Submitted: 2024-10-21
• Study First Posted: 2024-10-22
• Last Update Posted: 2024-10-22
• Primary Completion: 2024-12
• Study Completion: 2025-09

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: RECRUITING
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 2100

Inclusion Criteria

Not provided

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Depression, anxiety, and stress	Up to six months since enrollment	Measured by the Patient Health Questionnaire 8 (PHQ)
Anxiety	Up to six months since enrollment	Measured by GAD-7 (General Anxiety Disorder Questionnaire)
Stress	Up to six months since enrollment	Measured by PSS-4 (Perceived Stress Scale 4)
Self-efficacy	Up to six months since enrollment	Measured using the short version of the General Self-Efficacy Scale, the GSE-6
Locus of Control	Up to six months since enrollment	Measure using the Internal-External Locus of Control Short Scale-4 (IE-4)

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Remittances	Up to six months since enrollment	Amount and frequency of remittances to the participants' countries of origin
Social connectedness and Integration to the US	Up to six months since enrollment	we will measure this with a subset of questions of the Multidimensional Measure of Immigrant Integration (Harder et al. 2018), with questions about: psychological integration, linguistic integration, political and economic integration and social integration. We will report these separately and combining them through an Anderson index (Anderson, 2008). In addition, as a second outcome we will use a revealed-choice measures of their demand to invest in learning English (by giving them a choice between access to a language course or cash/item)

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

The University of Texas at Austin; 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States