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NCT Number: NCT04945902

International Students Intervention

The proposed project aims to provide international students on F-1, J-1, or M-1 visas at Purdue additional culturally-relevant support by implementing and testing a psychosocial intervention. The intervention was designed based on the results of a recently published research study (Bhojwani et al., 2020) about international student concerns and needs in the time of COVID-19. This intervention is designed to test the effectiveness of a strengths-based intervention that targets the particular needs of international students during COVID. The intervention was designed based on evidence-based Cognitive-Behavioral and Systemic Therapy (Jafar et. al, 2016; Saravanan et. al., 2017) approaches to addressing stress and anxiety in a culturally-relevant manner and to decrease social isolation.

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Key information

Conditions

Social Isolation Behavior Social Behavior

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Purdue University

West Lafayette, Indiana, 47907, United States

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • International students who report being on J-1, F-1, or M-1 visas
  • Currently enrolled in classes at Purdue at either the undergraduate or graduate level either remotely or in-person
  • 18 years or older

Exclusion criteria

  • active suicidality and/or homicidality

Treatment and study plan

Synchronous Intervention

Behavioral

Weekly one-hour support groups. These support groups will meet virtually using a restricted WebEx channel and will be recorded. In this support group, students will discuss the weekly activities and build connection and support with each other. This group will be led by advanced doctoral students in counseling psychology and overseen by a counseling psychology faculty member, who is also a licensed psychologist.

Asynchronous Intervention

Behavioral

The asynchronous intervention will provide access to information and resources for mental health support via Brightspace. The intervention will be six weeks long and each week will have a topic. The weekly topics include: (1) identifying feelings; (2) biology of emotions; (3) mindfulness; (4) recognizing and responding to stress; (5) mental health stigma; and (6) self-care/self-advocacy. Each week, you will be required to complete four types of activities: education, reflective exercises, an activity, and a short assessment. All of these resources will be provided on Brightspace to be completed on your own time but the activities must be completed during the week they are assigned. You will not have to interact with other international students if you are in the asynchronous intervention group.

Primary outcomes

  1. Change from Baseline of CCAPS-34 scores to Post-intervention

    Time frame: 6 weeks

    CCAPS-34 assesses seven domains of psychological symptoms salient to college students, average scores will be used [range 0-4], with higher scores indicating worse outcome

  2. Change from Baseline of DASC-21 scores to Post-intervention

    Time frame: 6 weeks

    DASC-21 assesses depression and anxiety symptoms, average scores will be used [range 0-3], with higher scores indicating worse outcome

  3. Change from Baseline of CCAPS-34 scores to 10 weeks

    Time frame: 10 weeks

    CCAPS-34 assesses seven domains of psychological symptoms salient to college students, average scores will be used [range 0-4], with higher scores indicating worse outcome

  4. Change from Baseline of DASC-21 scores to 10-weeks

    Time frame: 10 weeks

    DASC-21 assesses depression and anxiety symptoms, average scores will be used [range 0-3], with higher scores indicating worse outcome

Secondary outcomes

  1. Social Connectedness Scale (SCS)

    Time frame: through the study completion, an average of 10 weeks

    SCS assesses indivividuals' social connectedness, range from 1 to 6, reverse coded with higher scores indicating better outcome

  2. Campus Climate

    Time frame: through the study completion, an average of 10 weeks

    Adapted from Glass, C. R. (2012). with 6 items to measure students' connection with the university specifically, range 0 to 4, with higher scores indicating better campus climate

  3. Group Session Rating Scale (GSRS)

    Time frame: weekly for 6 weeks

    GSRS is only administered for the intervention synchronous group, range from 1 to 10, with higher scores indicating better group cohesion

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Purdue University

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Registry information

Official study title

A Psychosocial Intervention to Protect Purdue International Students

Important dates

Study start
2021
Primary completion
2021
Study completion
2021
First posted
Jun 30, 2021
Registry last updated
Jun 30, 2021

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