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Meditation to Reduce Firefighter Distress

NCT ID: NCT06518616

Last Updated: 2025-11-12

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

RECRUITING

Clinical Phase

PHASE2

Total Enrollment

192 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2024-12-03

Study Completion Date

2027-02-28

Brief Summary

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The more than one million firefighters in the United States provide critical emergency medical services in communities they serve and are on the front lines of healthcare delivery, including in the post-pandemic world. As a result of exposure to occupational stressors, a high proportion of firefighters experience considerable stress-related burden including psychological distress (i.e., increased features of anxiety and depression). To address this need, this project will test the efficacy of a 10-day meditation intervention (i.e., 10 individual prerecorded audio units delivered by smartphone app) among career firefighters to decrease psychological distress (i.e., anxiety and depression).

Detailed Description

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The goal of this study is to test the efficacy of a 10-day meditation intervention (i.e., 10 individual prerecorded audio units delivered by smartphone app) versus an active attention control (i.e., 10-day health education intervention with 10 individual prerecorded audio units delivered by smartphone app) to reduce psychological distress among N=160 career firefighters (to address possible attrition, N=192 firefighters will be consented and enrolled). The following specific aims will guide the research:

Aim 1. Examine whether firefighters' psychological distress (i.e., features of anxiety \[primary outcome\], depression) is reduced at 10 days, 30 days, and 3 months after the meditation intervention versus an active attention control. Features of anxiety, features of depression will be assessed at baseline (T1), after the 10-day intervention (T2), 30 days later (T3), and 3 months later (T4).

Aim 2: Explore the extent to which reductions in psychological distress from the meditation intervention are mediated by mindfulness and perceived social connection.

Conditions

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Psychological Distress

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Randomized controlled trial
Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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10-day meditation intervention

prerecorded meditation units, 10 units, one per day, delivered by smartphone app

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

10-day meditation intervention

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

prerecorded meditation units delivered by smartphone app

10-day health education intervention

prerecorded health education units, 10 units, one per day, delivered by smartphone app

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

10-day health education intervention

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

prerecorded health education units delivered by smartphone app

Interventions

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10-day meditation intervention

prerecorded meditation units delivered by smartphone app

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

10-day health education intervention

prerecorded health education units delivered by smartphone app

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

Exclusionary factors: 1) diagnosis of an illness requiring use of corticosteroids (e.g., asthma), and 2) have ongoing or past regular meditation experience in the last 4 years (i.e. more than two meditation session \[completed or attempted\] per year either with a group or individually), as determined by the PI.
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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University of Arizona

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Thaddeus Pace, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Arizona

Locations

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University of Arizona

Tucson, Arizona, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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United States

Central Contacts

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Thaddeus Pace, PhD

Role: CONTACT

Phone: 5206263520

Email: [email protected]

Facility Contacts

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Thaddeus Pace

Role: primary

Other Identifiers

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STUDY00003422

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id