Clinical trial NCT06555172: Feasibility Testing a Meditation App for Professionals Working With Youth in the Legal System
Official title: Feasibility Trial of a Mindfulness-based mHealth Intervention to Mitigate the Effects of Chronic Workplace Stress Among Juvenile Justice Officers
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Anxiety
Depression
Burnout, Professional
Emotion Regulation
Lead sponsor: University of Illinois at Chicago
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2024-08-15
Enrollment: 50
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: Participants will be individually randomized at a 1:1 ratio to 1 of 2 smartphone app conditions: (1) AIM+, a 30-day mindfulness meditation app, or (2) Resource+, a 30-day informational app that is matched to AIM+ for time and structure but provides information on local resources relevant to youth.
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: This feasibility clinical trial aims to assess the feasibility of implementing a 1-month app-based meditation program with officers in the juvenile legal system and other professionals working directly with legal-involved youth.

Detailed description: Professionals working with legal-involved youth experience high levels of depression, anxiety, and workplace burnout. Mindfulness meditation targets emotion regulation-which appears to be a common mechanism underlying depression, anxiety, and burnout-and it can be effectively delivered via smartphone app. This project will assess the feasibility of implementing a 1-month app-based meditation program with officers and other professionals working with legal-involved youth in Cook County, which houses one of the nation's largest juvenile legal systems. The findings are intended to inform the development of a future, fully-powered hybrid effectiveness-implementation randomized controlled trial (RCT).

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Currently working with youth in the juvenile legal system or related juvenile services and programming
* English speaking
* Able to understand and provide consent
* At least 18 years old
* Have an Android or Apple smartphone

Primary outcomes:
measure: App adherence
timeFrame: 1 month
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Acceptability
timeFrame: 1 month
measure: Appropriateness
timeFrame: 1 Month
measure: Feasibility of App Implementation
timeFrame: 1 month
measure: Usability
timeFrame: 1 month
measure: Satisfaction with intervention
timeFrame: 1 month
measure: Penetration
timeFrame: 1 and 6 month
Other outcomes:
measure: Anxiety
timeFrame: baseline, 1 month, 6 months
measure: Depression
timeFrame: baseline, 1 month, 6 months
measure: Workplace burnout
timeFrame: baseline, 1 month, 6 months
measure: Perceived stress
timeFrame: baseline, 1 month, 6 months
measure: Anger
timeFrame: baseline, 1 month, 6 months
measure: Sleep disturbance
timeFrame: baseline, 1 month, 6 months
measure: Alcohol use
timeFrame: baseline, 1 month, 6 months
measure: Resilience
timeFrame: baseline, 1 month, 6 months
measure: Mindfulness
timeFrame: baseline, 1 month, 6 months
measure: Regulation of negative mood states
timeFrame: baseline, 1 month, 6 months
measure: Attentional control
timeFrame: baseline, 1 month, 6 months
measure: Current positive and negative mood states
timeFrame: baseline, 1 month
measure: Current attentional control
timeFrame: baseline, 1 month
Locations:
city: Chicago
country: United States
facility: University of Illinois Chicago
state: Illinois
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