NCT06874790

RCT for Latina Mental Health Using Web-Based Apps

Randomized Controlled Trial of a Choice-driven, Interactive, Storytelling Web-based App to Investigate Mental Health Treatment Initiation Among Symptomatic Latinas

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 700 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of California, Los Angeles · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study compares a choice-driven, interactive, evidence-informed storytelling web-based app intervention with links to resources and treatment (Tx) recommendations (made by a character via her blog) and Tx locator, to a web-based app with links to publicly available informational internet videos, MH resources, and a treatment locator for at least moderately anxious/depressed untreated English and Spanish speaking Latinas to determine if a story-based, character-driven approach is more effective for catalyzing mental health treatment initiation.

Conditions

• Mental Health
• Anxiety
• Depression
• Well-Being, Psychological

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Catalina	Catalina transmedia web-based app intervention with 10 story-based videos (including bonus story extender videos) totaling 31 minutes plus the blog of the character, "Veronica," which has MH resource links including Veronica's recommendations of at least 3 local Latinx-serving clinics in LA and Orange County ZIP Codes that offer low-cost MH Tx.
BEHAVIORAL	Control webpage	Links to informational videos (totaling 31 minutes) on depression and anxiety, listing of the same 3 local Latinx-serving clinics in LA and Orange County ZIP codes that offer low-cost MH Tx, and links to nationally available websites that offer resources (including access to service locators).

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-07-09
• Primary completion: 2028-11-30
• Completion: 2028-11-30
• First posted: 2025-03-13
• Last updated: 2025-12-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States