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

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

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Overview

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.

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).

Eligibility

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

Study details
    Anxiety
    Depression
    Burnout
    Professional
    Emotion Regulation

NCT06555172

University of Illinois at Chicago

15 October 2025

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