ESTOCMA: Mental Health Application for Enhancing Mental Health Literacy About Obsessive-compulsive Disorder and Reduce Stigma

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Stigmatizing attitudes are a problem associated to mental disorders. In obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) stigma has been associated to shame, guilty and delay asking for help. The aim of the study is to analyze the efficacy of a mobile health application (app) designed to increase mental health l...

Stigmatizing attitudes are a problem associated to mental disorders. In obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) stigma has been associated to shame, guilty and delay asking for help. The aim of the study is to analyze the efficacy of a mobile health application (app) designed to increase mental health literacy, help seeking attitudes and reduce stigma associated with obsessive-compulsive disorder. The app has been named ESTOCMA. It consists in a game in which participants are asked to fight against the OCD stigma monster through ten missions. Participants have to liberate 10 characters who are prisoners of EsTOCma monster. A randomized controlled trial with crossover design will be carried out in non-clinical population to assess pre-post changes in levels mental health literacy, help seeking attitudes and stigma through app completion (an estimation of 10 days), and after 3 and 6 months (follow up). Participants from community will be randomly assigned to one of two conditions: undertaking immediate-use or delayed use. All participants will be requested to complete a set of questionnaires at baseline (T1), after completion of the app (T2), 3 months (T3) and 6 months (T4) from baseline. Participants from immediate-use will be asked to use the app during 10 days between T1 and T2. Participants from delayed used condition, will use the app after T2 evaluation, and will have an extra evaluation after 15 days (T2.1).

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