Digital Mental Health Care for COVID-19 High-Risk Populations - Phase 2

NCT05826132 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 8128a
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 1,402
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The mental health consequences of the COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease of 2019) pandemic are likely to be vast, exceeding the capacity of mental health services and delaying treatment for people in need, with devastating consequences for those affected. Emerging data suggest that frontline health workers (e.g. physicians, nurses, emergency medical technicians) and essential workers (in industries such as energy, and food products and services) face particular risks for mental health problems during and after the COVID-19 outbreak. Additionally, our previous findings have shown that among these higher risk individuals, young adults and women reported greater levels of clinical symptoms. To address the unprecedented mental health needs during and as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic this study will develop and test novel, cost-effective and scalable, digitally-delivered mental health interventions, and will test this approach by focusing on health care workers and other essential workers with an eye toward the young adult portion of this population.

Conditions

Stigma, Social; Help-Seeking Behavior

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (4)

• Stigma (the Self Stigma of Seeking Help Scale - 3 item) (SSOSH-3)

  Change in stigma items from baseline - higher score, indicate higher stigma (range of 3 to 12)

  immediately after the intervention

• Stigma (3 items of the SSOSH-3)

  Change in stigma items from baseline - higher score, indicate higher stigma (range of 3 to 12)

  30 days after the intervention

• Help Seeking Intentions (3 items of the Attitudes Toward Seeking Professional Psychological Help) (ATSPPH)

  Change in treatment seeking intentions from baseline - higher score, indicate higher help seeking intentions (range of 3 to 12)

  Immediately after the intervention

• Help Seeking Intentions (3 items of the ATSPPH)

  Change in treatment seeking intentions from baseline - higher score, indicate higher help seeking intentions (range of 3 to 12)

  30 days after the intervention

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Number of Referral Clicks

  Immediately after the intervention

Study Arms (3)

Adjusted Content Intervention Video

EXPERIMENTAL

Participants will watch a 2-3-minute video in which an empowered essential worker protagonist shares her COVID-19 related mental health problems and describes how she was able to confront her mental health problems and pursuit of mental health care, using language that speaks to the specific experience of being a young Latina woman.

Other: Adjusted Content Intervention

Non-Adjusted Intervention Video

EXPERIMENTAL

Participants will watch a 2-3-minute video in which an empowered essential worker protagonist shares her COVID-19 related mental health problems and describes how she was able to confront her mental health problems and pursuit of mental health care, without any language alluding to her particular identity characteristics.

Other: Non-Adjusted Intervention Video

Control Arm

NO INTERVENTION

Participants will watch a control video discussing daily activities.

Interventions

Adjusted Content Intervention OTHER

2-3-minute video in which an empowered essential worker protagonist shares her COVID-19 related mental health problems and describes how she was able to confront her mental health problems and pursuit of mental health care, using language that speaks to the specific experience of being a young Latina woman

Adjusted Content Intervention Video

Non-Adjusted Intervention Video OTHER

2-3-minute video in which an empowered essential worker protagonist shares her COVID-19 related mental health problems and describes how she was able to confront her mental health problems and pursuit of mental health care, without any language alluding to her particular identity characteristics

Non-Adjusted Intervention Video

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 35 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• Essential worker
• Ages 18-35
• English-speaking, able to provide consent

You may not qualify if:

• N/A

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene, Inc.: lead
• Columbia University: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

New York State Psychiatric Institute

New York, New York, 10032, United States

Location

Related Publications (1)

• Fisch CT, Lazarov A, Lewis-Fernandez R, Dixon LB, Neria Y, Amsalem D. Brief Video Intervention to Increase Treatment-Seeking Intentions Among Young Adults With Psychiatric Symptoms: A Randomized Controlled Trial. J Clin Psychiatry. 2025 Oct 27;86(4):25m15881. doi: 10.4088/JCP.25m15881.

  PMID: 41159853 DERIVED

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Social Stigma; Help-Seeking Behavior

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Social Behavior; Behavior

Study Officials

• Yuval Neria, PhD

  NYSPI and Columbia University

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Director of PTSD team at Columbia University

Model Details: Randomized controlled trial

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: April 20, 2023
• First Posted: April 24, 2023
• Study Start: May 1, 2023
• Primary Completion: January 31, 2024
• Study Completion: January 31, 2024
• Last Updated: December 18, 2024

Record last verified: 2024-12

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

US (1)