TY  - JOUR
AU  - Jones, Grant
AU  - Herrmann, Felipe
AU  - Nock, Matthew K
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/8/16
TI  - A Digital Music-Based Mindfulness Intervention for Black Americans With Elevated Race-Based Anxiety: A Multiple-Baseline Pilot Study
JO  - JMIR Form Res
SP  - e49284
VL  - 7
KW  - Black music
KW  - mindfulness
KW  - meditation
KW  - single-case experiment
KW  - race
KW  - anxiety
KW  - digital health intervention
KW  - low income
KW  - Black community
KW  - racial disparity
AB  - Background: Race-based anxiety is a substantial health issue for the Black community. Although mindfulness interventions have demonstrated efficacy for alleviating anxiety, three central barriers prevent Black Americans from accessing existing mindfulness treatments: high costs, excessive time commitments, and limited cultural relevance. There is a need for novel mindfulness interventions for the Black community that can overcome these barriers. Objective: The goal of this web-based study was to examine the preliminary efficacy, feasibility, and acceptability of a novel digital music-based mindfulness intervention for middle-to-low-income Black Americans with elevated race-based anxiety. Methods: This study used a nonconcurrent multiple-baseline design (n=5). The intervention featured contributions from Lama Rod Owens (a world-renowned meditation teacher and LA Times best-selling author) and Terry Edmonds (the former chief speechwriter for President Bill Clinton). We examined the effect of the intervention on state anxiety and assessed its feasibility and acceptability using quantitative and qualitative measures. Results: Results revealed that administration of the intervention led to significant decreases in state anxiety (Tau-U range –0.75 to –0.38; P values<.001). Virtually all feasibility and acceptability metrics were high (ie, the average likelihood of recommending the intervention was 98 out of 100). Conclusions: This study offers preliminary evidence that a digital music-based mindfulness intervention can decrease race-based anxiety in Black Americans. Future research is needed to replicate these results, test whether the intervention can elicit lasting changes in anxiety, assess mechanisms of change, and explore the efficacy of the intervention in real-world contexts. 
SN  - 2561-326X
UR  - https://formative.jmir.org/2023/1/e49284
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2196/49284
UR  - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37585252
DO  - 10.2196/49284
ID  - info:doi/10.2196/49284
ER  -