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

The University of Texas System (UT)

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Well-being; Mental Health

Treatments: Behavioral: Lottery incentive; Behavioral: 2-month access to mental health app; Behavioral: 4-month access to mental health app; Behavioral: Direct incentive

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06652711

STUDY00005337

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Enrollment: 2,100 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

The target population will be: immigrants to the U.S. of Hispanic origin whose native language is Spanish, who have been living in the U.S. (intermittently or continuously) for less than 10 years, who are over 18 years of age, who have a PHQ4 score that is three or more, who would be interested in using a well-being phone app, who do not have a graduate degree and have access to a smartphone.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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2,100 participants in 7 patient groups

2-month access and no incentive

Experimental group

Description:

Participants have access to the well-being app for two months and receive no incentive for using the app.

Treatment:

Behavioral: 2-month access to mental health app

2-month access and lottery incentive

Experimental group

Description:

Participants have access to the well-being app for two months, and participate in a lottery for gift cards if they display sufficient engagement.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Lottery incentive

Behavioral: 2-month access to mental health app

2-month access and direct incentive

Experimental group

Description:

Participants have access to the well-being app for two months, and receive a direct payment if they display sufficient engagement.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Direct incentive

Behavioral: 2-month access to mental health app

4-month access and no incentive

Experimental group

Description:

Participants have access to the well-being app for four months and receive no incentive for using the app.

Treatment:

Behavioral: 4-month access to mental health app

4-month access and lottery incentive

Experimental group

Description:

Participants have access to the well-being app for four months, and participate in a lottery for gift cards if they display sufficient engagement.

Treatment:

Behavioral: 4-month access to mental health app

Behavioral: Lottery incentive

4-month access and direct incentive

Experimental group

Description:

Participants have access to the well-being app for four months, and receive a direct payment if they display sufficient engagement.

Treatment:

Behavioral: 4-month access to mental health app

Behavioral: Direct incentive

control

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants do not have access to the app during the study.