Addressing the Mental Health and Emotional Well-being of Immigrants Through a Scalable Intervention
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age18+
SponsorUniversity of Texas at Austin
About this trial
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.
Eligibility criteria
This trial does not accept healthy volunteersQualifiers
None
Disqualifiers
None
Trial design
Design model
Parallel
Treatments tested in this trial
2-month access to mental health app
BehavioralParticipants will have access to the well-being app for two months.
Direct incentive
BehavioralA $10 gift card are given to participants at the end of the study if they used the app sufficiently.
4-month access to mental health app
BehavioralParticipants will have access to the well-being app for four months.
Lottery incentive
BehavioralParticipants can participate in a draw of $150 gift cards at the end of the study if they used the app sufficiently.
Treatment groups
2,100 Participants
are divided into 7 treatment groups7
Treatment groupsSee each treatment group below.
Group A: 2-month access and no incentiveExperimental treatment 1 intervention
Group B: 2-month access and lottery incentiveExperimental treatment 2 interventions
Group C: 2-month access and direct incentiveExperimental treatment 2 interventions
Group D: 4-month access and no incentiveExperimental treatment 1 intervention
Group E: 4-month access and lottery incentiveExperimental treatment 2 interventions
Group F: 4-month access and direct incentiveExperimental treatment 2 interventions
Group G: controlNo intervention 0 interventions
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
1
Depression, anxiety, and stress
Measured by the Patient Health Questionnaire 8 (PHQ)
Time frame
Up to six months since enrollment2
Anxiety
Measured by GAD-7 (General Anxiety Disorder Questionnaire)
Time frame
Up to six months since enrollment3
Stress
Measured by PSS-4 (Perceived Stress Scale 4)
Time frame
Up to six months since enrollment4
Self-efficacy
Measured using the short version of the General Self-Efficacy Scale, the GSE-6
Time frame
Up to six months since enrollmentSecondary outcomes
1
Remittances
Amount and frequency of remittances to the participants' countries of origin
Time frame
Up to six months since enrollment2
Social connectedness and Integration to the US
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)
Time frame
Up to six months since enrollmentOther outcomes
1
Perceptions and attitudes towards using mental health services
Provided that there was widespread reticence at baseline.
Time frame
Up to six months since enrollment2
Parental expectations and aspirations about their youngest child under 18 educational attainment
For those with children
Time frame
Up to six months since enrollment3
Absenteeism
Question about missing day at work in the last month
Time frame
Up to six months since enrollment4
Uptake for the app
Number of participants who download the app
Time frame
Up to six months since enrollmentSponsors and contacts
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Source ClinicalTrials.gov