Feasibility Trial of a Mindfulness-based mHealth Intervention to Mitigate the Effects of Chronic Workplace Stress Among Juvenile Justice Officers
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Anxiety
- Sponsor
- University of Illinois at Chicago
- Enrollment
- 50
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- App adherence
- Status
- Recruiting
- Last Updated
- last year
Overview
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).
Investigators
Ashley D Kendall
Assistant Professor
University of Illinois at Chicago
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
Exclusion Criteria
- Not provided
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
App adherence
Time Frame: 1 month
Days of objective app usage
Secondary Outcomes
- Appropriateness(1 Month)
- Usability(1 month)
- Satisfaction with intervention(1 month)
- Penetration(1 and 6 month)
- Acceptability(1 month)
- Feasibility of App Implementation(1 month)