Clinical trial NCT04088487: New in Town-Internet Intervention for Migrants
Official title: New in Town-Internet Intervention for Migrants: a Randomized Controlled Trial
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: TERMINATED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Self Efficacy
Loneliness
Social Skills
Lead sponsor: University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2019-09-12
Enrollment: 178
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: New in Town is an internet intervention for migrants that aims at increasing social self-efficacy. The study aim is to evaluate its effectiveness.

Detailed description: The number of migrants worldwide is growing rapidly over the past years. Migration often requires creating a whole new social network. There is something that can help migrants to do it-their beliefs. Social self-efficacy is confidence in ability to engage in social interactional tasks necessary to initiate and maintain interpersonal relationships. These beliefs are positively related to social adjustment and negatively related to acculturative stress, depression, and loneliness. Therefore, social self-efficacy may be potentially beneficial for the psychological adjustment of migrants helping them establish new connections in the social environment. Based on this observation the investigators have created New in Town, an internet intervention. Exercises in the intervention are based on the principles of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and relate to four sources of self-efficacy beliefs-mastery experiences, vicarious experiences, verbal persuasions, and emotional and physiological states.

The effectiveness of New in Town intervention will be tested in a two-arm randomized controlled trial with waitlist control group. Primary outcome is social self-efficacy, and secondary outcomes include loneliness, perceived social support, and satisfaction with life. Other measure of interest is system usability. Participants will be assessed at pre-test (T1), 3-week post-tests (T2), as well as 8-week follow-up (T3). The investigators aim to analyze the effect size of the intervention and between-groups comparisons at post-test and follow-up.

This study will provide insights into the effectiveness of an internet intervention in increasing social self-efficacy, perceived social support and satisfaction with life, and reducing loneliness.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* age of at least 18 years
* having changed the place of residence in the last 6 months

Exclusion Criteria:

- no access to a internet

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change on Social Self-Efficacy
timeFrame: Change from baseline on Social Self-Efficacy (3 weeks)
measure: Change on Social Self-Efficacy
timeFrame: Change from baseline on Social Self-Efficacy (8 weeks)
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Change on Loneliness
timeFrame: Change from baseline on Loneliness (3 weeks)
measure: Change on Loneliness
timeFrame: Change from baseline on Loneliness (8 weeks)
measure: Change on Social support
timeFrame: Change from baseline on Social support (3 weeks)
measure: Change on Social support
timeFrame: Change from baseline on Social support (8 weeks)
measure: Change on Satisfaction with life
timeFrame: Change from baseline on Satisfaction with life (3 weeks)
measure: Change on Satisfaction with life
timeFrame: Change from baseline on Satisfaction with life (8 weeks)
Other outcomes:
measure: System usability
timeFrame: 3-week post-test (only experimental group)
Locations:
city: Warsaw
country: Poland
facility: SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities
state: Warszawa
Study officials:
affiliation: SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities
name: Anna Rogala, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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