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

Not Applicable

Recruiting

• Conditions: Anxiety; Emotion Regulation; Burnout, Professional; Depression
• Interventions: Behavioral: Resource+; Behavioral: Action In Mindfulness (AIM)+

• Registration Number: NCT06555172
• Lead Sponsor: University of Illinois at Chicago

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).

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2024-08-12
• Study First Submitted QC: 2024-08-12
• Study First Posted: 2024-08-15
• Study Start: 2024-11-21
• Status Verified: 2025-02
• Last Update Submitted: 2025-02-06
• Last Update Posted: 2025-02-10
• Primary Completion: 2026-04
• Study Completion: 2026-04

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: RECRUITING
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 50

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

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Resource+	Resource+	Participants randomized to the active control arm will receive the Resource+ informational resource app.
Action In Mindfulness (AIM)+	Action In Mindfulness (AIM)+	Participants randomized to the intervention arm will receive the AIM+ mindfulness meditation app.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
App adherence	1 month	Days of objective app usage

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Appropriateness	1 Month	Measured with the Intervention Appropriateness Measure (IAM). This scale measures appropriateness using 4 items, each item rated on a 5-point scale and averaged to yield total scale scores between 1 and 5; higher scores indicate greater appropriateness.
Usability	1 month	Measured with the System Usability Scale (SUS). This scale measures the usability of products and designs, specifically effectiveness, efficiency, and user satisfaction using 10 items, each item is rated on a 5-point scale; items calculated to produce a total score between 0 and 100; higher scores generally indicate greater usability.
Satisfaction with intervention	1 month	Measured with the Client Satisfaction Questionnaire (CSQ-8). This scale measures satisfaction using 8 items, each item is rated on a 4-point scale; total sum scores range from 8 to 32; higher scores indicate higher satisfaction.
Penetration	1 and 6 month	Measured via objective app analytics.; * App analytics track referrals to our clinical trials made by participants through their study app to (a) other officers and (b) youth in the legal system.; * App analytics track the use by participants of files from their study app that are intended to be shared with youth (i.e., meditation practices to play with youth in the AIM+ app, or resources to be shared with youth in the Resource+ app).
Acceptability	1 month	Measured by Acceptability of Intervention Measure (AIM). This scale measures acceptability using 4 items, each item rated on a 5-point scale and averaged to yield total scale scores between 1 and 5; higher scores indicate greater acceptability.
Feasibility of App Implementation	1 month	Measured with the Feasibility of Intervention Measure (FIM). This scale measures feasibility using 4 items, each item rated on a 5-point scale and averaged to yield total scale scores between 1 and 5; higher scores indicate greater feasibility.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University of Illinois Chicago; 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States