Abriendo Caminos: Engaging Latino Communities Through Culturally Responsive Peer Delivered Motivational Interviewing
Yale University
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
Description
Despite the availability of effective mental health treatment, approximately 47% of Latino adults with trauma and serious mental illness (SMI) are not engaged in treatment. The main goal of this current study is to conduct a pilot study to establish the feasibility and acceptability of implementing a culturally responsive motivational interviewing engagement intervention and to ascertain preliminary evidence of the engagement of hypothesized target mechanisms that may mediate enhanced engagement in mental health treatment. The adapted intervention will be implemented by Latino peers with a sin…
Eligibility
- Age range
- 18+ years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria: * Meet criteria for serious mental illness * Not in treatment * 18 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 Criteria: * 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 * Re…
Interventions
- BehavioralCulturally responsive motivational interviewing
Six sixty-minute sessions of culturally responsive motivational interviewing, once a week.
Locations (2)
- Fellowship PlaceNew Haven, Connecticut
- Program for Recovery and Community HealthNew Haven, Connecticut