Abstract
This is an announcement of a Registered Report which received In-Principal-Acceptance (IPA) to be published in Clinical Psychology in Europe. The study protocol is publicly accessible at https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.3152. In this announcement, a brief summary of the study protocol is presented.
Highlights
AimsThe registered study will use a Smartphone-based self-help programme called Step-byStep (Albanian: Hap-pas-Hapi) for the treatment of psychological distress among Albani‐ an-speaking immigrants in Switzerland and Germany
We hypothesise that the deep structure adaptation will enhance the acceptance and effect size of the intervention
Participants will be randomly assigned to the surface vs. deep structure adaptation version of Hap-pas-Hapi (1:1 allocation using permuted block randomization)
Summary
The registered study will use a Smartphone-based self-help programme called Step-byStep (Albanian: Hap-pas-Hapi) for the treatment of psychological distress among Albani‐ an-speaking immigrants in Switzerland and Germany. Two levels of cultural adaptation (i.e., surface vs deep structure adaptation) will be compared. We hypothesise that the deep structure adaptation will enhance the acceptance and effect size of the intervention. The deep structure adaptation was done based on an ethnopsychological study to exam‐ ine the target population’s cultural concepts of distress
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