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Intervention to Address Disparate Mental Health Consequences of COVID-19 Pandemic on Latinx and African Newcomers

Active Not RecruitingNA

Sponsor: University of New Mexico

Conditions: Mental Health Issue, Mental Health Disorder, Stress, Emotional, Economic Problems

Interventions: Refugee and Immigrant Well-being Project (RIWP)

Countries: United States

This study tests the effectiveness of a community-based peer advocacy, mutual learning, and social support intervention (Refugee and Immigrant Well-being Project) to reduce several negative consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic that are disproportionately impacting Latinx and Black populations: psychological distress, financial problems, and daily stressors. In partnership with five community-based organizations that focus on mental health, legal, education, and youth issues with Latinx immigrants and African refugees, we will also be able to examine the effects of people's involvement with community-based organizations and local and state policy changes on their mental health, economic stability, stressors, and social support. This is important not only for Latinx and Black populations and the large number of immigrants and refugees in the United States and worldwide, but also because the intervention model and what we learn from this study have the potential to alleviate mental health disparities experienced by other marginalized populations who face unequal access to social and material resources, disproportionate exposure to trauma and stress, and worse consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Eligibility overview

Sex: ALL

Age: 18 Years to —

Healthy volunteers: Yes

Study type: INTERVENTIONAL

Eligibility criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

* All Latinx immigrants and African refugees aged 18 and older residing in New Mexico will be eligible to participate.

Exclusion Criteria:

* For the random sample of 1000 Latinx immigrants, exclusion criteria will be having used the services of one of the four community-based partner organizations serving Latinx immigrants within the past year (at time of study enrollment). For the 240 Latinx immigrants and 60 African refugees recruited through the five community-based organizations, exclusion criteria will be severe cognitive functioning problems or mental illness that is so severe as to impede participation in a group and that warrants immediate individual treatment.

Locations (1)

Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States