Skills Video Intervention for Chinese/Chinese Americans

Rutgers The State University of New Jersey

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Self Efficacy; Emotion Regulation; Acceptability of Health Care

Treatments: Behavioral: Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills video intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06024083

Pro2023001220

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a study that aims to test a coping skills intervention delivered via brief animated videos for Chinese and Chinese American college students.

Full description

We are interested in seeing whether a brief video-based Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills training intervention that incorporates Western psychotherapy components and Eastern philosophies would be perceived as relevant and useful for this culturally unique yet diverse group. During the study, participants will (1) complete a 20-min online baseline questionnaire; (2) complete a brief survey each day using a phone App for up to four weeks; and may (3) receive a video each day during the intervention.

Enrollment: 91 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• age 18 or older
• identifying as Chinese or Chinese American
• interested in learning coping skills to regulate emotions
• having a smart-phone compatible with the research mobile phone app
• matriculated at the local University for the current semester

Exclusion criteria

• currently receiving routine mental health services
• not able to read or write English
• not able to provide informed consent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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91 participants in 3 patient groups

Assessment only

No Intervention group

Description:

Daily assessment of emotion regulation and self-efficacy variables.

Acceptance-oriented skills followed by change-oriented skills

Experimental group

Description:

Administration of acceptance-oriented skills videos first followed by change-oriented skills videos.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills video intervention

Change-oriented skills followed by acceptance-oriented skills

Experimental group

Description:

Administration of change-oriented skills videos first followed by acceptance-oriented skills videos.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills video intervention