Effect of Music and Mindfulness Meditation

Status

Completed

Phases

Study type

Interventional

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT06704841

Enrollment

Registered

2024-11-26

Start date

2024-11-12

Completion date

2025-02-20

Last updated

2025-04-27

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Conditions

Anxiety

Brief summary

The purpose of the study is to explore the effect of music and mindfulness meditation on anxiety and mindful interoception in undergraduate music students.

Interventions

BEHAVIORALMusic in combination with mindfulness

Participants will attend two in-person sessions per week over two consecutive weeks. Each session will be up to one hour in duration. During each session, participants will engage in a 20-minute guided meditation while listening to instrumental music.

Study design

Allocation

Intervention model

SINGLE_GROUP

Primary purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Masking

NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* Participants must be undergraduate college students majoring in a music degree. * Participants must self-report feeling general anxiety at a level of 7/10 recently. * Participants must be proficient English-readers and -speakers and be full-time enrolled students. * Students of any gender and race/ethnic group may be included. * Participants must be novice meditators, having fewer than 10 total meditation experiences. * Students of any year will be accepted if they are considered undergraduate students by the university.

Exclusion criteria

* Self-reporting feeling general anxiety below a 7/10 recently. * Having more than 10 total meditation experiences.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Change in State-Anxiety Inventory-5 questionnaire	Baseline, up to 1 hour post intervention	The State-Anxiety Inventory-5 each consists of 5 items. The scale items are scored on a 4-point Likert scale of 1 to 4 (1= Not at all, 2= Somewhat, 3= Moderately so, 4= Very much so). Higher scores indicate greater anxiety.

Secondary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Change in Mindfulness Interoception measured by Likert scale	Baseline, 2 weeks	The scale items are scored on a 4-point Likert scale of 1 to 4 (1= Not at all, 2= Somewhat, 3= Moderately so, 4= Very much so). A higher score suggests higher mindful interoception skills.

Countries

United States

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026