Recruiting

Motivational Interviewing

Sponsor:

Yale University

Code:

NCT07529509

Conditions

Serious Mental Illness

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

Culturally responsive motivational interviewing

Study Details

Brief 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

Conditions

Serious Mental Illness

Study ID

NCT07529509

Start date

Jul 9, 2026

Status verified date

Jul, 2026

Completion date

Aug, 2027

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Apr, 2027

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

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
  • 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

Study Design

Enrollment

30 participants

Anticipated

Intervention Model

Single group

Primary purpose

Supportive Care

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: Culturally responsive peer-delivered motivational interviewing

Six sixty-minute culturally responsive motivational interviewing sessions, once a week.

Interventions

Culturally responsive motivational interviewing

Six sixty-minute sessions of culturally responsive motivational interviewing, once a week.

Primary outcome measure

  • Number of participants recruited [ Time Frame: From April 2026 to April 2027 (approximately 1 year) ]
  • Number of participants that complete the study [ Time Frame: From enrollment to the end of follow-up at 60 days post-session 6 ]
  • Number of sessions completed [ Time Frame: From enrollment to the end of treatment at 6 weeks ]
  • The Client Satisfaction Questionnaire [ Time Frame: From enrollment to the end of treatment at 6 weeks ]
  • Number of assessments completed [ Time Frame: From enrollment to the end of treatment at 6 weeks ]
  • Qualitative acceptability questions [ Time Frame: End of treatment at 6 weeks ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Oscar F Rojas Perez, PhD

203-940-7869oscar.rojasperez@yale.edu

Locations

Fellowship Place

Recruiting

New Haven, Connecticut, United States, 06511

Contacts

Liphahlee (Lee) Marshall, LCSW

203-401-4227lmarshall@fellowshipplace.org

Principal Investigator:

Oscar F Rojas Perez, PhD

Program for Recovery and Community Health

Recruiting

New Haven, Connecticut, United States, 06513

Contacts

Oscar F Rojas Perez, PhD

203-940-7869oscar.rojasperez@yale.edu

Kimberly Blackman, MSW

(203) 764-8694kimberly.blackman@yale.edu

Principal Investigator:

Oscar F Rojas Perez, PhD

More Information

Sponsor

Yale University

Last update posted

Jul 21, 2026

Last verified

Jul, 2026

Keywords

  • SMI
  • Latino
  • Peer
  • Recovery
  • Engagement

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Yale University on 2026-07-21.