Evaluating the Community Drum Circle

NCT ID: NCT06513858

Last Updated: 2024-09-19

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: RECRUITING
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 90 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2024-08-01
• Study Completion Date: 2025-08-31

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.

Conditions

Mental Health Issue; COVID-19

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Drum Circle- Cohort 1

Cohort 1 will listen together to recordings of drumming and be allowed to drum along while listening.

The facilitator will lead participants in procedures such as checking in (e.g. "How are you doing today?" before and after the circle) and breathing exercise.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Communal Drumming

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Communal drumming

Communal drumming recordings

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Recordings of drumming taken from the music made during a previous component of the study

Drum Circle Control Group- Cohort 2

Control investigations will also be conducted to better understand the contribution communal drumming has on effects of anxiety and connectedness. All control investigations will take place in the same space and at the same frequency as the associated experimental arm but with no drumming. All participants will be asked to complete the same surveys and at the same frequency to those completed in the experimental arm.

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Communal drumming recordings

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Recordings of drumming taken from the music made during a previous component of the study

Interventions

Communal Drumming

Communal drumming

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Communal drumming recordings

Recordings of drumming taken from the music made during a previous component of the study

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• ages 16 and older

Exclusion Criteria

• ages 15 and younger

• Minimum Eligible Age: 16 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 65 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

NIH

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Yale University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

AZA Allsop, MD, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Yale University

Locations

BLOOM

New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Site Status: RECRUITING

Musical Intervention Studios

New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Site Status: RECRUITING

Countries

United States

Central Contacts

AZA Allsop, MD, PhD

Role: CONTACT

Aza.allsop@yale.edu

240-422-3289

Other Identifiers

2R25MH071584-11

Identifier Type: NIH

Identifier Source: secondary_id

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2000028866_c

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id