Music-based Mindfulness Intervention for Elevated Race-based Anxiety in the Black Community

Harvard University8 enrolled

Overview

This study uses a multiple-baseline design and aims to replicate findings that a digital music-based mindfulness intervention can reduce elevated race-based state anxiety in Black Americans.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

Conditions

Anxiety

Interventions

healing attemptBEHAVIORAL

The intervention consists of pre-composed and pre-recorded guided meditations, songs, and poems that total 25 minutes in duration. The elements of the intervention were set to background music tracks that were informed by Black diasporic music traditions and anxiety reduction principles from the music therapy literature.

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Familiarity with meditation * Turns to music for emotional support * Elevated trait anxiety (\>=12 on the State Trait Anxiety Inventory - Trait \[STAIT\]-5) * Majority of anxiety comes from racism or discrimination (\>=60 on a scale of 0 \[not at all\] to 100 \[entirely\] for the following question; "If you are a racial or ethnic minority, how much do you feel that racism and/or discrimination contribute to your elevated anxiety levels?")." Exclusion Criteria: \-

Locations (1)

Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

State anxiety

Assessed with the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory - 6 \[Higher Score = More Anxiety\]

Time frame: Duration of study visit (60-90 minutes)

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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