Clinical trial NCT06614868: Minority Stress Counseling for LGBTQ+ Individuals
Official title: Minority Stress Counseling for LGBTQ+ Individuals
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Minority Stress
Keywords: Minority Stress
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Lead sponsor: University of Alabama at Birmingham
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2024-09-26
Enrollment: 80
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: Randomized control trial
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer+ (LGBTQ+) individuals experience a breadth of mental health disparities. Reducing these disparities is an area of key psychological research. Minority stress is theorized to be an underlying source of the disparities (Meyer, 2003). Minority stress can be conceptualized as the internalized stigma that results from experiences of social marginalization. By reducing minority stress, it is hypothesized that generalized mental illness indicators might be reduced and indicators of wellbeing increased.

Detailed description: Adult participants will respond to advertisements by emailing a research assistant.

A research assistant will then arrange for a pre-screening interview to ensure inclusion criteria are met.

A research assistant will review informed consent and receive a signed informed consent during the pre-screening.

Participants who are accepted into the study will then be offered up to 12 sessions of ACT or receive an unstructured treatment as usual counseling condition delivered by graduate students in the UAB medical/clinical psychology program under the supervision of Dr. Borgogna. These sessions will be 45 minutes each and delivered in Dr. Borgogna's lab. During the first sessions a survey battery will be administered on a lab secure computer administered via Qualtrics. It will be re-administered at session six, and during the last session.

The survey will include a broad base of demographic, mental health, and minority stress measures.

Participants will be assigned a random number that will link their survey responses across sessions. Identifying information will not be gathered as part of data collection.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Must identify as non-heterosexual

Exclusion Criteria:

Suicide attempt within the past 12 months.

Current eating disorder.

Narcotics use within the past 3 months

Non-suicidal self-injury within the past 6 months.

Current/History of psychosis

Primary outcomes:
measure: Depression
timeFrame: 12 weeks
measure: Anxiety
timeFrame: 12 Weeks
measure: Post Traumatic Stress
timeFrame: 12 Weeks
measure: Internalized Heterosexism
timeFrame: 12 Weeks
measure: Discrimination
timeFrame: 12 Weeks
measure: Alcohol Problems
timeFrame: 16 Weeks
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Experiential Avoidance
timeFrame: 16 Weeks
measure: Affect
timeFrame: 16 Weeks
measure: Problematic Pornography Use
timeFrame: 12 Weeks
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Birmingham
country: United States
facility: University of Alabama at Birmingham
state: Alabama
Study officials:
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