Feasibility Testing a Meditation App for Professionals Working With Youth in the Legal System

University of Illinois

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Burnout, Professional; Emotion Regulation; Depression; Anxiety

Treatments: Behavioral: Resource+; Behavioral: Action In Mindfulness (AIM)+

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06555172

2023-0363

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Full 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).

Enrollment: 50 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion 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

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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50 participants in 2 patient groups

Action In Mindfulness (AIM)+

Experimental group

Description:

Participants randomized to the intervention arm will receive the AIM+ mindfulness meditation app.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Action In Mindfulness (AIM)+

Resource+

Active Comparator group

Description:

Participants randomized to the active control arm will receive the Resource+ informational resource app.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Resource+