A Brief, Digital Music-Based Mindfulness Intervention for Black Americans With Elevated Race-Based Anxiety and Little-to-No Meditation Experience (“healing attempt"): Replication and Extension Study

• DOI: 10.2196/53268
• Publication Date: 2023-11-24T14:16:08Z
• Authors: Grant Jones; Franchesca Castro...; Maha Al-Suwaidi; Taylor McGuire; Felipe Herrmann
• Keywords: Compassion

Race-based anxiety is a critical health issue within the Black community. Mindfulness interventions hold promise for treating race-based in Americans; however, there are many barriers that prevent Americans from using these treatments, such as low cultural relevance, significant time burdens, and excessive costs.This study replication extension of findings "healing attempt"-a brief (<60-minute), digital, music-based mindfulness intervention-is feasible acceptable intervention Americans. In this study, we tested research question among those with little-to-no meditation experience.The participants were 4 American adults elevated trait experience. We used series multiple-baseline single-case experiments conducted visits on Zoom (Zoom Video Communications) to assess whether can decrease state increase self-compassion also assessed feasibility acceptability quantitative qualitative scales.In line our hypotheses, attempt" increased mindfulness/self-compassion (Tau-U range: 0.57-0.86; P<.001) decreased -0.93 -0.66; P<.001), high (the average likelihood recommending was 88 out 100)."healing may represent little or no Future between-subjects randomized trials give rise lasting improvements anxiety, mindfulness, self-compassion.OSF Registries osf.io/k5m93; https://osf.io/k5m93.