{"doi":"10.1016/j.invent.2023.100633","title":"Randomized evaluation of an online single-session intervention for minority stress in LGBTQ+ adolescents","abstract":"LGBTQ+ youth face myriad adverse health outcomes due to minority stress, creating a need for accessible, mechanism-targeted interventions to mitigate these minority stress-related risk factors. We tested the effectiveness and acceptability of Project RISE, an online single-session intervention designed to ameliorate internalized stigma and improve other outcomes among LGBTQ+ youth. We hypothesized that youth assigned to RISE (versus a control) would report significantly reduced internalized stigma and increased identity pride at post-intervention and at two-week follow-up and would find RISE acceptable. We recruited adolescents nationally through Instagram advertisements in May 2022 (N = 538; M age = 15.06, SD age = 0.97). Participants were randomly assigned to RISE or an information-only control and completed questionnaires pre-intervention, immediately post-intervention, and two weeks post-intervention. Inclusion criteria included endorsing: (1) LGBTQ+ identity, (2) age 13–16, (3) English fluency (4) Internet access, and (5) subjective negative impact of LGBTQ+ stigma. Relative to participants in the control condition, participants who completed RISE reported significant decreases in internalized stigma (d = −0.49) and increases in identity pride (d = 0.25) from pre- to immediately post-intervention, along with decreased internalized stigma (d = −0.26) from baseline to two-week follow-up. Participants rated both RISE and the information-only control as highly, equivalently acceptable. RISE appears to be an acceptable and useful online SSI for LGBTQ+ adolescents, with potential to reduce internalized stigma in both the short- and longer-term. Future directions include evaluating effects of Project RISE over longer follow-ups and in conjunction with other mental health supports.","journal":"Internet Interventions","year":2023,"id":323990,"datarank":0.5375278407684165,"base_score":3.58351893845611,"endowment":3.58351893845611,"self_citation_contribution":0.5375278407684165,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.5375278407684165,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":35,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9476,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2023-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":422625,"name":"Alex Rubin","orcid":"0000-0003-4338-5396","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1039889,"name":"Kristen E. Cohen","orcid":null,"position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1039374,"name":"Einar A. Hart","orcid":"0000-0003-4905-036X","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":391323,"name":"Jee Eun Sung","orcid":"0000-0002-1734-0058","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":689246,"name":"Riley McDanal","orcid":"0000-0002-4607-4131","position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":619258,"name":"Chantelle A Roulston","orcid":"0000-0001-6312-0171","position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1039375,"name":"Ian Sotomayor","orcid":"0000-0002-7438-1462","position":7,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":439229,"name":"Kathryn R. Fox","orcid":"0000-0002-2697-7771","position":8,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":250868,"name":"Jessica L. Schleider","orcid":"0000-0003-2426-1953","position":9,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":718889,"name":"Jenny Shen","orcid":"0000-0002-5742-3229","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":38,"raw_metadata":{"citation_network_status":"fetched"},"created_at":"2026-07-19T01:08:06.496579Z","pmid":"37635950","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}