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

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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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.

Official Title
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A Digital Music-based Mindfulness Intervention for Elevated Race-based Anxiety in the Black Community: a Replication and Extension

Conditions
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Anxiety

Intervention / Treatment
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* Behavioral: healing attempt


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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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: -

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 18 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
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All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Design Details

Primary Purpose: Treatment
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Interventional Model Description: We recruited 8 Black American adults to participate in this multiple baseline study. In a multiple-baseline design, one takes repeated measurements of one's outcomes of interest across time, and subsequently compares these outcomes of interest between an initial baseline control period with no intervention and a subsequent intervention period. This is a within-subjects study design for which participants serve as their own control.
Masking: None (Open Label)


Arms and Interventions

| Participant Group/Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
| --- | --- |
| Experimental: Multiple-baseline study<br>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). | Behavioral: healing attempt<br>* 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.<br>|

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
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| State anxiety | Assessed with the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory - 6 [Higher Score = More Anxiety] | Duration of study visit (60-90 minutes) |