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We will study the impacts of offering access to an emotional well-being phone app to Hispanic U.S. immigrants in psychological distress. Our primary outcome is participants' psychological well-being.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| 2-month access and no incentive | Experimental | Participants have access to the well-being app for two months and receive no incentive for using the app. |
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| 2-month access and lottery incentive | Experimental | Participants have access to the well-being app for two months, and participate in a lottery for gift cards if they display sufficient engagement. |
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| 2-month access and direct incentive | Experimental | Participants have access to the well-being app for two months, and receive a direct payment if they display sufficient engagement. |
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| 4-month access and no incentive | Experimental | Participants have access to the well-being app for four months and receive no incentive for using the app. |
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| 4-month access and lottery incentive | Experimental | Participants have access to the well-being app for four months, and participate in a lottery for gift cards if they display sufficient engagement. |
| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| 2-month access to mental health app | Behavioral | Participants will have access to the well-being app for two months. |
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| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Depression, anxiety, and stress | Measured by the Patient Health Questionnaire 8 (PHQ) | Up to six months since enrollment |
| Anxiety | Measured by GAD-7 (General Anxiety Disorder Questionnaire) | Up to six months since enrollment |
| Stress | Measured by PSS-4 (Perceived Stress Scale 4) | Up to six months since enrollment |
| Self-efficacy | Measured using the short version of the General Self-Efficacy Scale, the GSE-6 | Up to six months since enrollment |
| Locus of Control | Measure using the Internal-External Locus of Control Short Scale-4 (IE-4) | Up to six months since enrollment |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Remittances | Amount and frequency of remittances to the participants' countries of origin | Up to six months since enrollment |
| Social connectedness and Integration to the US | we will measure this with a subset of questions of the Multidimensional Measure of Immigrant Integration (Harder et al. 2018), with questions about: psychological integration, linguistic integration, political and economic integration and social integration. We will report these separately and combining them through an Anderson index (Anderson, 2008). In addition, as a second outcome we will use a revealed-choice measures of their demand to invest in learning English (by giving them a choice between access to a language course or cash/item) |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Perceptions and attitudes towards using mental health services | Provided that there was widespread reticence at baseline. | Up to six months since enrollment |
| Parental expectations and aspirations about their youngest child under 18 educational attainment |
The target population will be: immigrants to the U.S. of Hispanic origin whose native language is Spanish, who have been living in the U.S. (intermittently or continuously) for less than 10 years, who are over 18 years of age, who have a PHQ4 score that is three or more, who would be interested in using a well-being phone app, who do not have a graduate degree and have access to a smartphone.
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| Name | Role | Phone | Extension | |
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| Raissa Fabregas | Contact | 512-471-7349 | rfabregas@utexas.edu |
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| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| The University of Texas at Austin | Recruiting | Austin | Texas | 78712 | United States |
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| 4-month access and direct incentive | Experimental | Participants have access to the well-being app for four months, and receive a direct payment if they display sufficient engagement. |
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| control | No Intervention | Participants do not have access to the app during the study. |
| Direct incentive | Behavioral | A $10 gift card are given to participants at the end of the study if they used the app sufficiently. |
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| 4-month access to mental health app | Behavioral | Participants will have access to the well-being app for four months. |
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| Lottery incentive | Behavioral | Participants can participate in a draw of $150 gift cards at the end of the study if they used the app sufficiently. |
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| Up to six months since enrollment |
For those with children
| Up to six months since enrollment |
| Absenteeism | Question about missing day at work in the last month | Up to six months since enrollment |
| Uptake for the app | Number of participants who download the app | Up to six months since enrollment |
| Use of the app | Number of days and minutes participants use the app | Up to six months since enrollment |
| Demand for the app | Willingness to pay exercise to recover demand for the app | Up to six months since enrollment |
| ID | Term |
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| D000092862 | Psychological Well-Being |
| ID | Term |
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| D010549 | Personal Satisfaction |
| D001519 | Behavior |
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