Project BrEAtHe: A Culturally Tailored MBSR Intervention for Young Adult Black Men

UConn Health

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder; Alcohol Abuse; Substance Abuse

Treatments: Behavioral: self-guided mHealth app + 'real-time' feedback; Behavioral: self-guided mHealth app only

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT07009977

21-232O-1

R34DA054412 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to create a program focused on mindfulness and stress reduction specifically tailored to young adult Black males.

Full description

Project Brothers reclaiming Emotional Awareness, tranquility, Healing, and Ex-istence (BrEAtHe) is a research study to create a program focused on mindfulness and stress reduction specifically tailored to young adult Black males (18 to 29 years old) residing in Durham, NC and in Hartford, CT. The investigators plan to use a mobile app on a cell phone to better understand 'real-time' feedback of experiences of stress due to racism. The investigators are interested in learning about the recruitment and retention of Black males participating in mindfulness based practices. The investigators are also interested in receiving feedback about options to modify and scale a Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction intervention and its preliminary effects on reducing physical and emotional stress reactions and poor coping mechanisms like marijuana and alcohol use linked to everyday racism and discrimination.

Enrollment: 22 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 18 to 29 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age: 18-29
• Ethnicity: non-Hispanic Black
• Gender: Male
• does not meet the DSM-V criteria for substance use disorder or dependence or severe post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD);
• Neighborhood Inclusion Criteria: must live in a high VAOD neighborhood in Durham County, NC, or North Hartford Promise Zone, CT and have resided in the selected neighborhood for at least 6 months.

Exclusion criteria

• non-English speakers,
• meet the DSM-V criteria for substance use disorder or dependence or severe post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD);
• women;
• men of other racial/ethnic groups;
• neighborhood outside of high VAOD neighborhood in Durham County, NC or North Hartford Promise Zone, CT.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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22 participants in 2 patient groups

Group based MBSR training with BrEAtHe App (No Feedback)

Experimental group

Description:

self-guided mHealth app only

Treatment:

Behavioral: self-guided mHealth app only

Group based MBSR training with BrEAtHe App (Feedback)

Experimental group

Description:

self-guided mHealth app + 'real-time' feedback.

Treatment:

Behavioral: self-guided mHealth app + 'real-time' feedback