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

President and Fellows of Harvard College

Status: Completed

Conditions: Anxiety

Treatments: Behavioral: healing attempt

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05746312

IRB21-0256

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Enrollment: 8 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

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

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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8 participants in 1 patient group

Multiple-baseline study

Experimental group

Description:

All participants in this study received the same protocol. First, we had a baseline control period (no intervention) during which we assessed state anxiety levels every two minutes. Subsequently, we administered the intervention and continued to assess state anxiety at two minute intervals. Participants were randomized to baseline periods that varied in length (10,12,14, or 16 minutes of baseline).

Treatment:

Behavioral: healing attempt