International Students Intervention

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Social Isolation

• Registration Number: NCT04945902
• Lead Sponsor: Purdue University

Brief Summary

The proposed project aims to provide international students on F-1, J-1, or M-1 visas at Purdue additional culturally-relevant support by implementing and testing a psychosocial intervention. The intervention was designed based on the results of a recently published research study (Bhojwani et al., 2020) about international student concerns and needs in the time of COVID-19. This intervention is designed to test the effectiveness of a strengths-based intervention that targets the particular needs of international students during COVID. The intervention was designed based on evidence-based Cognitive-Behavioral and Systemic Therapy (Jafar et. al, 2016; Saravanan et. al., 2017) approaches to addressing stress and anxiety in a culturally-relevant manner and to decrease social isolation.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2021-01-18
• Study First Submitted: 2021-03-16
• Primary Completion: 2021-05-18
• Study Completion: 2021-05-18
• Status Verified: 2021-06
• Study First Submitted QC: 2021-06-22
• Last Update Submitted: 2021-06-22
• Study First Posted: 2021-06-30
• Last Update Posted: 2021-06-30

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 77

Inclusion Criteria

• International students who report being on J-1, F-1, or M-1 visas
• Currently enrolled in classes at Purdue at either the undergraduate or graduate level either remotely or in-person
• 18 years or older

Exclusion Criteria

• active suicidality and/or homicidality

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change from Baseline of DASC-21 scores to Post-intervention	6 weeks	DASC-21 assesses depression and anxiety symptoms, average scores will be used \[range 0-3\], with higher scores indicating worse outcome
Change from Baseline of CCAPS-34 scores to 10 weeks	10 weeks	CCAPS-34 assesses seven domains of psychological symptoms salient to college students, average scores will be used \[range 0-4\], with higher scores indicating worse outcome
Change from Baseline of DASC-21 scores to 10-weeks	10 weeks	DASC-21 assesses depression and anxiety symptoms, average scores will be used \[range 0-3\], with higher scores indicating worse outcome
Change from Baseline of CCAPS-34 scores to Post-intervention	6 weeks	CCAPS-34 assesses seven domains of psychological symptoms salient to college students, average scores will be used \[range 0-4\], with higher scores indicating worse outcome

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Group Session Rating Scale (GSRS)	weekly for 6 weeks	GSRS is only administered for the intervention synchronous group, range from 1 to 10, with higher scores indicating better group cohesion
Campus Climate	through the study completion, an average of 10 weeks	Adapted from Glass, C. R. (2012). with 6 items to measure students' connection with the university specifically, range 0 to 4, with higher scores indicating better campus climate
Social Connectedness Scale (SCS)	through the study completion, an average of 10 weeks	SCS assesses indivividuals' social connectedness, range from 1 to 6, reverse coded with higher scores indicating better outcome

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Purdue University; 🇺🇸 West Lafayette, Indiana, United States