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

NCT ID: NCT06555172

Last Updated: 2025-02-10

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

RECRUITING

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

50 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2024-11-21

Study Completion Date

2026-04-30

Brief Summary

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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

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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).

Conditions

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Anxiety Depression Burnout, Professional Emotion Regulation

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

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 Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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Action In Mindfulness (AIM)+

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

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Action In Mindfulness (AIM)+

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

AIM+ is a smartphone-based app that teaches mindfulness meditation to professionals working with legal-involved youth over a 30-day "path." Each day of the path consists of a brief (approximately 5- to 10-minute) audio-guided meditation practice, with brief videos interspersed to illustrate key concepts and promote engagement. In addition to the 30 daily path files, users have access to a menu of "to go" audio-guided meditation practices that they can use as relevant to their workday (e.g., for professionals to listen to before attending a meeting). AIM+ also includes a menu of audio-guided meditation practices that officers can share with the youth on their caseloads (e.g., for youth to listen to before attending court).

Resource+

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

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Resource+

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Resource+ is a smartphone-based app that is matched to AIM+ for time and structure, but it includes information on community resources that professionals can provide to the youth with whom they work in place of the meditation content featured in AIM+.

Interventions

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Action In Mindfulness (AIM)+

AIM+ is a smartphone-based app that teaches mindfulness meditation to professionals working with legal-involved youth over a 30-day "path." Each day of the path consists of a brief (approximately 5- to 10-minute) audio-guided meditation practice, with brief videos interspersed to illustrate key concepts and promote engagement. In addition to the 30 daily path files, users have access to a menu of "to go" audio-guided meditation practices that they can use as relevant to their workday (e.g., for professionals to listen to before attending a meeting). AIM+ also includes a menu of audio-guided meditation practices that officers can share with the youth on their caseloads (e.g., for youth to listen to before attending court).

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Resource+

Resource+ is a smartphone-based app that is matched to AIM+ for time and structure, but it includes information on community resources that professionals can provide to the youth with whom they work in place of the meditation content featured in AIM+.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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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
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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University of Illinois at Chicago

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Ashley D Kendall

Assistant Professor

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

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University of Illinois Chicago

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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United States

Central Contacts

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Ashley D Kendall, PhD

Role: CONTACT

312-355-1836

Facility Contacts

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Ashley D Kendall, PhD

Role: primary

312-355-1836

References

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Kendall AD, Pela E, Amonica D, Jaworski E, Floyd B; AIM+ Community Advisory Board. Feasibility Testing a Meditation App for Professionals Working With Youth in the Legal System: Protocol for a Hybrid Type 2 Effectiveness-Implementation Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR Res Protoc. 2025 Apr 24;14:e71867. doi: 10.2196/71867.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 40273446 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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2023-0363

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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