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Meditation to Reduce Firefighter Distress

NCT06518616 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 192

Last updated 2025-11-12

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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

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

10-day meditation intervention

prerecorded meditation units delivered by smartphone app

BEHAVIORAL

10-day health education intervention

prerecorded health education units delivered by smartphone app

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Arizona

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Thaddeus Pace, PhD · University of Arizona

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-12-03
Primary Completion
2026-08-31
Completion
2027-02-28

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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