Clinical trial NCT06513858: Evaluating the Community Drum Circle
Official title: Evaluating the Impact of Community-Based Mindfulness and Musical Programs on Psychiatric Measures, Drum Circle Study 2c.
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Mental Health Issue
COVID-19
Keywords: Mindfulness
Meditation
Music
Lead sponsor: Yale University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
First posted: 2024-07-22
Enrollment: 90
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 16
Maximum age (years): 65
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Brief summary: Mental health vulnerability due to stress is increased America due to disproportionate effects of social factors such as racism, poverty, education, and criminal justice sentencing. Various meditation and mindfulness approaches have provided evidence of measured reductions in multiple negative dimensions of stress. However, the majority of these studies do not have an adequate representation of Persons of African Descent(PAD) or other marginalized groups and are not designed to be culturally relevant or community based. Music has been shown to alleviate multiple symptoms of stress and has been shown to be a preferred and effective support for meditation and mindfulness. However, its role in stress management in PADs engaged in meditation or mindfulness is seldom studied. This study aims to evaluate the effects of a community-based music mindfulness program on stress management in PAD community members with anxiety and depression during COVID19.

Component 2c. Drum Circle Study: Investigators will study the impact of participation in drum circles on anxiety and feelings of connectedness.

Detailed description: The investigators also propose a study to investigate the effects of communal drumming in reducing anxiety and increasing connectedness within drum circle community. Investigators hypothesize that these intervention will lead to reductions in scores on stress scales and will provide preliminary data for studies evaluating these types of community programs as an adjunct to the standard of care.

Individuals who attend periodic (i.e. weekly) drum circles will be recruited to join an 8-week paradigm. Drum circle sessions may audio recorded and participants will be informed of this during the consent process. Participants may be asked to undergo Electroencepholography, functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy, and/or other physiological measures before, during, and after the circles. Upon completion of the experiments, participants will be asked to take part in a focus group that will provide valuable feedback on their experience with the mindfulness intervention. Focus groups will last 30-minutes to 1 hour and will occur in-person.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* ages 16 and older

Exclusion Criteria:

* ages 15 and younger

Primary outcomes:
measure: Rating of Absorption in music pre vs post sessions
timeFrame: Baseline on day of study visit before drum circle, during drum circle (45min), 30 min after music listening
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Altered States of Consciousness Rating Scale
timeFrame: Baseline on day of study visit before drum circle, during drum circle (45min), 30 min after music listening
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: New Haven
country: United States
facility: BLOOM
state: Connecticut
city: New Haven
country: United States
facility: Musical Intervention Studios
state: Connecticut
Study officials:
affiliation: Yale University
name: AZA Allsop, MD, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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