Recruiting

Digital Tools

Sponsor:

UCLA

Code:

NCT07771322

Conditions

Mental Health

Cultural Adaptation

Psychotherapy

Mood Disorders

Culturally Responsive Care

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18 - 70+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Interventions

Culturally-attuned digital tools

Study Details

Brief summary:

Aim 1: Assess clinicians' receptiveness and potential use of Anise's online platform digital tools for managing sociocultural stressors and revise the tools for implementation. We will recruit 8 new clinicians (intervention group) who will receive training and provide feedback on the digital tools.

Aim 2: Evaluate the initial efficacy of the online platform digital tools for managing the impact of sociocultural stressors with 64 Asian American clients. The intervention group clinicians (receiving training and using the digital tools) and newly recruited 8 clinicians (not receiving training and not using the digital tools) for the control group will work with 4 clients each. The clinical outcome data of the clients will be analyzed to examine differences in the client prognosis between the control and intervention group.

A successful outcome of this project will be digital materials that effectively address the impact of sociocultural stressors for Asian Americans on Anise Health's digital health platform.

Conditions

Mental Health

Cultural Adaptation

Psychotherapy

Mood Disorders

Culturally Responsive Care

Study ID

NCT07771322

Start date

Jul 20, 2026

Status verified date

Aug, 2026

Completion date

Apr 30, 2027

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Mar 31, 2027

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18 - 70+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Clinician eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

  • New clinicians who have never provided services on the Anise Health platform

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Existing clinicians on the Anise Health platform

Client eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Asian American adults (age 18-90 years) who seek mental health services
2. resides in states in which Anise Health clinicians are licensed to provide care,
3. has access to reliable internet connection,
4. has signed the Informed Consent form prior to participants' entry into the study.

Exclusion Criteria:

Individuals seeking

1. treatment for serious mental illness such as bipolar disorder and psychotic disorders,
2. diagnosis for ADHD or Autism Spectrum Disorder,
3. treatment for eating disorder and substance use disorder,
4. attention for active suicidal ideation with plan and intent, or
5. persons lacking relevant decision-making capacity, or otherwise requiring a personal representative to indicate consent/authorization on their behalf, would be ineligible.

Study Design

Enrollment

80 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Non randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Treatment

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

no intervention: Control group

Eight clinicians new to the Anise Health digital mental health platform will be recruited to provide 12 weeks of mental health services to 4 clients each. The clinicians will provide clinical data that will be analyzed in comparison to the intervention group.

experimental: Intervention group

Eight clinicians new to the Anise Health digital mental health platform will be recruited to receive training to use digital tools developed to enhance their work on racial trauma, bicultural tension, and intergenerational conflict. They will then use these tools while providing 12 weeks of mental health services to 4 clients each. The clinicians will provide clinical data that will be analyzed in comparison to the intervention group.

Interventions

Culturally-attuned digital tools

The intervention includes clinicians receiving training to provide culturally-attuned mental health services to their clients through the use of digital tools. The digital tools include (a) digital worksheets designed to guide clients to explore and address sociocultural stressors, and (b) podcasts that help inform empirical knowledge on these issues. Clinicians are provided training how how they can effectively employ these digital tools with their clients to enhance their work, particularly regarding presenting concerns related to sociocultural stressors.

Primary outcome measure

  • Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale - Brief [ Time Frame: change from baseline (assessed at baseline and at the end of 12-week period) ]
  • The System Usability Scale [ Time Frame: At the end of 12-week study period ]
  • Acculturative Stress Scale [ Time Frame: change from baseline (assessed at baseline and at the end of 12-week period) ]
  • The Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure - Revised [ Time Frame: Change from baseline (assessed at baseline and at the end of the 12 week period) ]
  • Patient Health Questionnaire-9 [ Time Frame: Change from baseline (assessed at baseline, mid point, and the end of the 12 week period) ]
  • Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 [ Time Frame: Change from baseline (assessed at baseline, mid point, and the end of the 12 week period) ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Alice Zhang, MBA

424-209-2386alice@anisehealth.co

Brian Keum, PhD

510-473-7404briankeum@berkeley.edu

Locations

Anise Health (http://www.anisehealth.co)

Recruiting

Brooklyn, New York, United States, 11216

Contacts

Alice Zhang, MBA

424-209-2386alice@anisehealth.co

More Information

Sponsor

University of California, Berkeley

Last update posted

Aug 18, 2026

Last verified

Aug, 2026

Keywords

  • mental health
  • Asian American
  • Digital Mental Health
  • Anise Health
  • Cultural Adaptation
  • Asian
  • Digital Health

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 California, Berkeley on 2026-08-18.