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NCT03527303
The Impact of 8 Weeks of a Digital Meditation Application on Work Stress
NA trial testing Meditation in Stress, Psychological in 1,458 participants. Completed in 22 September 2020.
5 December 2019
Quick facts
| Lead sponsor | University of California, San Francisco |
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| Phase | NA |
| Status | Completed |
| Study type | INTERVENTIONAL |
| Allocation | randomized |
| Design | parallel |
| Masking | single |
| Primary purpose | treatment |
| Enrollment | 1,458 |
| Start date | 16 May 2018 |
| Primary completion | 5 December 2019 |
| Estimated completion | 22 September 2020 |
| Sites | 1 location across United States |
Drugs / interventions tested
- Meditation
Conditions studied
- Stress, Psychological — all drugs for Stress, Psychological →
- Behavioral Symptoms — all drugs for Behavioral Symptoms →
Sponsor
University of California, San Francisco
Who can join
18 and older, any sex, with Stress, Psychological or Behavioral Symptoms. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.
Sponsor's own description
The aim of this study is to test the effects of a digital meditation intervention in a sample UCSF employees who report mild to moderate stress. We will randomize UCSF employees to either 8-weeks of a digital meditation intervention (using the commercially available application Headspace) or a waitlist control condition.
Publications & conference data
1 peer-reviewed publication reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):
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Digital Meditation to Target Employee Stress: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
Radin RM, Vacarro J, Fromer E, Ahmadi SE, et al · · 2025 · cited 4× · PMID 39808431 · DOI 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.54435
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Verify against primary sources
- ClinicalTrials.gov — authoritative US registry record
- WHO ICTRP — international registry index
- EU Clinical Trials Register
- Sponsor press releases (Google)
- Trial protocol + status: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT03527303 (US National Library of Medicine, public domain)
- Publications: Europe PMC API search by NCT ID, retrieved 10 June 2026
- Drug + disease cross-links: matched in real time against Drug Landscape's normalised drug + company + condition tables
- Sponsor: as reported to ClinicalTrials.gov by University of California, San Francisco
- Last refreshed: 19 November 2020
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