Recruiting
Phase 2

Meditation

Sponsor:

University of Arizona

Code:

NCT06518616

Conditions

Psychological Distress

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Interventions

10-day meditation intervention

10-day health education intervention

Study Details

Brief summary:

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).

Conditions

Psychological Distress

Study ID

NCT06518616

Start date

Dec 3, 2024

Status verified date

Nov, 2025

Completion date

Feb 28, 2027

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Aug 31, 2026

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Inclusion criteria: 1) currently employed as a career firefighter, 2) 18 or older, 3) speak and understand English, and 4) own a smartphone (iPhone or Android) able to download and run the intervention apps.

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.

Study Design

Enrollment

192 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Treatment

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: 10-day meditation intervention

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

active comparator: 10-day health education intervention

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

Interventions

10-day meditation intervention

prerecorded meditation units delivered by smartphone app

10-day health education intervention

prerecorded health education units delivered by smartphone app

Primary outcome measure

  • anxiety features [ Time Frame: before, immediately after, 30 days after, and 3 months after the 10-day interventions ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Thaddeus Pace, PhD

5206263520twwpace@arizona.edu

Locations

University of Arizona

Recruiting

Tucson, Arizona, United States, 85721

Contacts

Thaddeus Pace

520-626-3520ffmind2@arizona.edu

More Information

Sponsor

University of Arizona

Last update posted

Nov 12, 2025

Last verified

Nov, 2025

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by University of Arizona on 2025-11-12.