Getting INFORMED and Living Well Among Asian Americans in California

University of California San Francisco (UCSF)

Status: Completed

Conditions: COVID-19; Well-Being, Psychological

Treatments: Behavioral: INFORMED-Living Well; Behavioral: Text Messaging Only

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05968300

P0567396

Details and patient eligibility

About

The project is to facilitate pandemic recovery by promoting emotional wellness among Asian Californians. The intervention includes a 6-week program in which participants may choose to receive text only or text + Lay Health Worker outreach targeting 600 self-identified Asian Americans residing in California who speak/read English, Chinese, Korean, Hmong, or Vietnamese.

Full description

Investigators will conduct a non-randomized intervention trial (preference trial). Research participants involved in the trial will include 20 lay health workers (LHWs) and 600 trial participants with intervention delivered via SMS text messaging (for all participants), and the intervention group will receive educational intervention outreach from an LHW via Zoom or mutually agreed video conferencing online venues, and by telephone or instant messaging. Participants will choose which group they are in, SMS text messaging only or SMS text messaging plus educational outreach from an LHW.

Enrollment: 616 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

i) age 18 and older

ii) speak Chinese, English, Hmong, Korean, or Vietnamese

iii) self-identify as Asian American

iv) have access to a mobile phone to receive SMS text messages

Exclusion criteria

• unwilling to receive SMS text messages from the project

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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616 participants in 2 patient groups

INFORMED-Living Well

Experimental group

Description:

INFORMED-Living Well consists of two components: 1) LHW outreach support providing responsive education and support; and 2) a 6-week automated SMS text messaging. The LHW educational outreach component includes 2 small group educational sessions with 2-8 participants. Participants will also receive a weekly SMS Text or instant message on managing emotional wellness within and beyond the context of the COVID-19 pandemic over 6 weeks. In addition, participants will receive as-needed messages on updates of COVID-19 or other situations that may introduce new worries and tragic culturally-based traumatic events.

Treatment:

Behavioral: INFORMED-Living Well

Text Messaging Only

Active Comparator group

Description:

Participants will have a 6-week SMS text messaging program identical to that received by the INFORMED-Living Well participants.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Text Messaging Only