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RecruitingNCT06163599Updated Jul 24, 2024

Reducing Mental Health Disparities Among Latinxs With a Telenovela Intervention

An interventional study of Transdiagnostic Telenovela Intervention in Anxiety Disorders, sponsored by University of Nevada, Reno. Recruiting at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2024-07-24.

Sponsored by University of Nevada, Reno · Not applicable, Interventional, and Other

From the registry’s dates

  • Primary completion was expected by Dec 2024, 1 year 10 months ago, but the record still lists the study as recruiting.
  • Started Jul 2024; still recruiting 2 years 4 months later.
Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
100
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

The primary aim of our study is to determine the effectiveness of an transdiagnostic telenovela video intervention in reducing anxiety and depressive symptoms using a pre/post-test design with Spanish-speaking Latinxs.

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Telenovela video interventions are a low-resource, low-cost methodology developed to diminish the treatment-provider gap (Heilemann et al., 2017). Research shows that telenovela interventions represent an acceptable (Heilemann et al., 2018) and potent (Heilemann et al., 2017) intervention option for disseminating information to the Latinx population. Prior research utilizing transmedia telenovela interventions that include a telenovela component have demonstrated some effectiveness at reducing symptoms of anxiety and depression among Latinxs (Heilemann et al., 2017; Kajiyama et al., 2018) as have fotonovelas (Sanchez et al., 2019). To date researchers have not investigated how the telenovela approach combined with a transdiagnostic treatment paradigm might help reduce behavioral health disparities among Spanish-speaking Latinxs given that such an intervention would be easily disseminable and target the two most common disorders observed among this population. The primary aim of this study is to determine the effectiveness of an transdiagnostic telenovela video intervention in reducing anxiety and depressive symptoms using a pre/post-test design with Spanish-speaking Latinxs.

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Conditions studied

  • Anxiety Disorders

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Keywords

  • anxiety disorder
  • transdiagnostic Treatment
  • United Protocol
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In context

Anxiety Disorders

7,201 studies on the registry are indexed under Anxiety Disorders; 1,682 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 100 is above the median of 80 across 6,057 interventional studies indexed under Anxiety Disorders.

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Lead sponsor

University of Nevada, Reno is the lead sponsor of 28 studies on the registry; 5 are open to participants now.

Of its 5 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 1 (20%) have results posted.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  1. 18 years or older
  2. Identify as Latinx
  3. Prefer behavioral health services in Spanish
  4. Meet the DSM criteria for any mild to moderate anxiety disorder
  5. Ownership of a smartphone

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Suicidality
  2. Psychosis
  3. Bipolar disorder
  4. Severe anxiety disorders
  5. Severe depressive disorders
  6. Homicidality
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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Other
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
100 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Telenovela Arm

    The UP telenovela (which is the experimental treatment arm) constitutes of nine videos depicting the main character, Esperanza, who is struggling with anxiety and depression, undergoing therapy involving the UP, and completing worksheets relating to the weekly therapy sessions.

    Behavioral: Transdiagnostic Telenovela Intervention

Interventions

  • BehavioralTransdiagnostic Telenovela Intervention

    The intervention constitutes nine videos depicting the main character, Esperanza, who is struggling with anxiety and depression, undergoing therapy involving the a trandiagnostic treatment, and completing worksheets relating to the weekly therapy sessions.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7

    Assesses the presence of anxiety symptoms in the past two weeks. Lower scores mean better outcomes. Scores range from 0 to 35.

    Time frame: Two weeks

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
  • La Clinica @ the UNR Psychological Services Center
    Reno, Nevada 89557, United States
    Recruiting
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: Undecided

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Jul 24, 2024, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT06163599
Lead sponsor
University of Nevada, Reno
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Dec 11, 2023
Start date
Jul 1, 2024
Primary completion
Dec 30, 2024 (estimated)
Completion
Dec 30, 2024 (estimated)
Last update
Jul 24, 2024

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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