Reducing Mental Health Disparities Among Latinxs With a Telenovela Intervention
- Conditions
- Anxiety Disorders
- Interventions
- Behavioral: Transdiagnostic Telenovela Intervention
- Registration Number
- NCT06163599
- Lead Sponsor
- University of Nevada, Reno
- 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.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- RECRUITING
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 100
- 18 years or older
- Identify as Latinx
- Prefer behavioral health services in Spanish
- Meet the DSM criteria for any mild to moderate anxiety disorder
- Ownership of a smartphone
- Suicidality
- Psychosis
- Bipolar disorder
- Severe anxiety disorders
- Severe depressive disorders
- Homicidality
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- SINGLE_GROUP
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Telenovela Arm Transdiagnostic Telenovela Intervention 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.
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 Two weeks Assesses the presence of anxiety symptoms in the past two weeks. Lower scores mean better outcomes. Scores range from 0 to 35.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
La Clinica @ the UNR Psychological Services Center
🇺🇸Reno, Nevada, United States