Reactions to Distress (RED) In Louisville, KY Study
ConditionThreat Sensitivity
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age18+
SponsorUniversity of Louisville
About this trial
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.
Eligibility criteria
This trial accepts healthy volunteersQualifiers
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?
Disqualifiers
None
Trial design
Design model
Single group
Treatments tested in this trial
Stress and Mindfulness Intervention
BehavioralParticipants 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)
Treatment groups
270 Participants
are divided into 1 treatment groupGroup A: Main sampleExperimental treatment 1 intervention
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
1
Free viewing task
Free Viewing Task. This is the outcome measure for both manipulations listed above. To assess attention bias to threat, we will use a free-viewing task in which participants are instructed to freely view a pair of images side by side across two blocks of 60 trials each. In Block 1, participants will view two types of image pairs: one threatening (i.e., angry face) and one neutral (i.e., neutral facial expression) or both neutral.
Time frame
10 minutes2
Affect
To ensure that the manipulations outlined above are having the intended effect (increase in NA/ decrease in PA after stress manipulation and the opposite after the mindfulness manipulation), participants will complete the 20-item PANAS after each manipulation. The items ask participants to indicate how they are feeling in the moment in terms of both negative affect (e.g., distressed, interested) and positive affect (e.g., strong, inspired) on a scale of 1 (very slightly or not at all) to 5 (very much). Scores are summed to create a total negative affect and positive affect score.
Time frame
5 minutesSponsors and contacts
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