Join a Brown University research study evaluating if a customized mindfulness course helps address minority stress and promote mental and sexual health. Mindfulness-Based Queer Resilience (MBQR) is a 10-week, Internet-delivered mindfulness intervention program designed to promote mental & sexual health for LGBTQ+ people. This clinical trial is enrolling young adults for a version of MBQR tailored specifically for gay men, bi men, queer men & non-binary people who were assigned male at birth. We all experience stress, confusion, anxiety, and difficult emotions in our lives. Mindfulness is a practice that helps you to bring presence, kindness, and friendliness to your experience. A great body of literature has shown mindfulness to support solid mental health coping skills and enhance self-compassion and resiliency. During the program, you will receive free training in meditation, mindful movements, and in directing mindfulness-based skills towards enhancing things like stress recovery, sleep, resilience, cognitive performance and social relationships. The practice will be tailored to LGBTQ people and discussion will also focus on how to best apply mindfulness in queer life — to facilitate self-love and self-acceptance, build queer resilience, improve sex positivity and sexual well-being, and build healthy, authentic relationships. The mindfulness class is typically offered at $500 in the community but is offered freely to you if eligible for the study. No previous experience with mindfulness is required. Enroll today! Principal Investigator: Shufang Sun, PhD Brown IRB Protocol: 2004002698 |
This study will examine the acceptability and effectiveness of Mindfulness-Based Queer Resilience for HIV prevention among young queer people who were assigned male at birth.
You may be eligible to participate in this study if you meet the following criteria:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Assigned male at birth
- Between the ages of 18 and 34
- Identify as a cisgender man or nonbinary
- Live in the United States
- Can read and speak English
- Engaged in condomless anal sex with another man in the past 6 months
- Have a device that allows for online conferencing
Baseline: If eligible, participants complete a baseline assessment (60-80 minutes), then an intro session via Zoom (30 minutes).
Intervention: You will then be randomly assigned to either
- take the MBQR class now, participating in live 2.5-hour groups for 10 weeks, or
- go through a self-paced online health education course & be given the option of taking a mindfulness course after the 6-month follow up assessment is complete.
Follow-up: The last two meetings will be the 6-month follow-up (60-80 minutes) and 1-year follow-up (60-80 minutes). This concludes your involvement in the study.
The entire study takes place online and can be completed anywhere in the United States.
