Recruiting

Observational Study

Sponsor:

University of Louisville

Code:

NCT07016945

Conditions

Threat Sensitivity

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Interventions

Stress and Mindfulness Intervention

Study Details

Brief summary:

The goal of this study is to understand whether race-related stress can impact the way people direct their attention and what interventions may be helpful for attention.

Conditions

Threat Sensitivity

Study ID

NCT07016945

Start date

Jul 25, 2024

Status verified date

Jun, 2025

Completion date

Apr 30, 2027

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Apr 30, 2027

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Eligibility for this study will include a positive response to the following questions: 1) Do you identify as Black or African American? 2) Have you ever in your lifetime personally experienced or witnessed another person experience any acts of racism or racial microaggressions? 3) Are you willing to complete a 1.5-hour study at the University of Louisville in the next 2 weeks? 4) Are you 18 or older?

Exclusion Criteria:

  • None

Study Design

Enrollment

270 participants

Anticipated

Intervention Model

Single group

Primary purpose

Basic Science

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: Main sample

Participants are randomized to experimental and intervention conditions. They are either in: race stress/mindfulness, race stress/control audio, control stress/mindfulness, or control stress/control audio.

Interventions

Stress and Mindfulness Intervention

Participants will be randomized to either the race-related stress condition or the non-race-related stress condition and the experimental group (7-minute pre-recorded audio file of a guided mindfulness practice) or the control group (7-minute pre-recorded neutral audio file). Thus there are four conditions total (RRS/Control Audio, RRS/Mindfulness Audio, Control Stress/Control Audio, Control Stress/Mindfulness Audio)

Primary outcome measure

  • Free viewing task [ Time Frame: 10 minutes ]
  • Affect [ Time Frame: 5 minutes ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Yara Mekawi, PhD

16308636375yara.mekawi@louisville.edu

Locations

Davidson Hall

Recruiting

Louisville, Kentucky, United States, 40208

Contacts

Yara Mekawi, PhD

630-863-6375yara.mekawi@louisville.edu

More Information

Sponsor

University of Louisville

Last update posted

Jun 12, 2025

Last verified

Jun, 2025

Keywords

  • attention bias
  • mindfulness
  • stress

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by University of Louisville on 2025-06-12.