Abriendo Caminos: Engaging Latinos
ConditionSerious Mental Illness
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age18+
SponsorYale University
About this trial
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 criteria
Qualifiers
Meet criteria for serious mental illness
Not in treatment
18 years of age or older
Reside in CT
Disqualifiers
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
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- Culturally responsive motivational interviewing
Treatment groups
30 Participants
are divided into 1 treatment groupSponsors and collaborators
Yale University
Lead sponsor
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Collaborator
Source ClinicalTrials.gov