Recruiting

Minority Stress Counseling

Sponsor:

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Code:

NCT06614868

Conditions

Minority Stress

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Interventions

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Treatment as Usual (TAU)

Study Details

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.

Conditions

Minority Stress

Study ID

NCT06614868

Start date

Jan 15, 2025

Status verified date

Aug, 2026

Completion date

Aug 15, 2028

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Aug 1, 2027

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

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

Study Design

Enrollment

80 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Treatment

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: Treatment Group

Participants receiving acceptance and commitment therapy

active comparator: Treatment as usual

Unstructured counseling intervention

Interventions

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Up to 16 session of unstructured counseling therapy informed by Acceptance and Commitment Therapy tradition.

Treatment as Usual (TAU)

Unstructured counseling

Primary outcome measure

  • Depression [ Time Frame: 12 weeks ]
  • Anxiety [ Time Frame: 12 Weeks ]
  • Post Traumatic Stress [ Time Frame: 12 Weeks ]
  • Internalized Heterosexism [ Time Frame: 12 Weeks ]
  • Discrimination [ Time Frame: 12 Weeks ]
  • Alcohol Problems [ Time Frame: 16 Weeks ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Nicholas Borgogna (Assistant Professor), PhD

7579693677borgogna@uab.edu

Locations

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Recruiting

Birmingham, Alabama, United States, 35294

Contacts

Nicholas Borgogna, PhD

435258961borgogna@uab.edu

Principal Investigator:

Nicholas Borgogna, PhQ

More Information

Sponsor

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Last update posted

Aug 31, 2026

Last verified

Aug, 2026

Keywords

  • Minority Stress
  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by University of Alabama at Birmingham on 2026-08-31.