Abriendo Caminos: Engaging Latinos
Abriendo Caminos: Engaging Latino Communities Through Culturally Responsive Peer Delivered Motivational Interviewing
Yale University
30 participants
Jul 1, 2026
INTERVENTIONAL
Conditions
Summary
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if a culturally responsive peer-delivered motivational interviewing intervention can enhance mental health treatment engagement in Latinos with serious mental illness. The main questions it aims to answer are: * How feasible is it to recruit 30 Latinos with serious mental illness into a 6 week treatment engagement intervention? * How acceptable is the intervention to Latinos with serious mental illness? Participants will: * Receive six sixty-minute sessions * Complete weekly measures, along with pre-, post-, 30-day, and 60-day post-intervention assessments
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria9
- Meet criteria for serious mental illness
- Not in treatment
- years of age or older
- Reside in CT
- Self-identify as Latino
- Speak English and/or Spanish
- History of trauma
- Have not received any treatment in the past 30 days
- Willing and able to be contacted for follow-up
Exclusion Criteria8
- Individuals in formal mental health treatment in the past 30 days
- Have a life-threatening or unstable medical, surgical, or psychiatric condition
- Inability to provide > 1 form of contact information
- Anticipate being unable to return for a follow-up assessment
- Reported active risk of suicide or homicide
- Fail capacity to consent
- Cognitively impaired
- Currently in jail or other overnight facilities as required by courts or law
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Interventions
Six sixty-minute sessions of culturally responsive motivational interviewing, once a week.
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NCT07529509