Anxiety Disorders
Conditions
Keywords
anxiety disorder, transdiagnostic Treatment, United Protocol
Brief 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.
Detailed description
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.
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.
Sponsors
University of Nevada, Reno
Study design
Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
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
1. Suicidality 2. Psychosis 3. Bipolar disorder 4. Severe anxiety disorders 5. Severe depressive disorders 6. Homicidality
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 | Two weeks | Assesses the presence of anxiety symptoms in the past two weeks. Lower scores mean better outcomes. Scores range from 0 to 35. |
Countries
United States
Outcome results
None listed