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Feasibility and acceptability of a guided internet-based stress management intervention for university students with high levels of stress: Protocol for an open trial

More than half of university students have high levels of stress. Stress management programs can help students improve coping skills and prevent psychological distress. However, studies have generally targeted all university students regardless of whether they experience high levels of stress or not...

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Autores principales: Amanvermez, Yagmur, Karyotaki, Eirini, Cuijpers, Pim, Salemink, Elske, Spinhoven, Philip, Struijs, Sascha, de Wit, Leonore M.
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Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7878182/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33614413
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.invent.2021.100369
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author Amanvermez, Yagmur
Karyotaki, Eirini
Cuijpers, Pim
Salemink, Elske
Spinhoven, Philip
Struijs, Sascha
de Wit, Leonore M.
author_facet Amanvermez, Yagmur
Karyotaki, Eirini
Cuijpers, Pim
Salemink, Elske
Spinhoven, Philip
Struijs, Sascha
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description More than half of university students have high levels of stress. Stress management programs can help students improve coping skills and prevent psychological distress. However, studies have generally targeted all university students regardless of whether they experience high levels of stress or not, and thus more studies are needed to examine the feasibility and acceptability of e-health interventions for students with elevated stress. The present open trial aims to examine the feasibility and acceptability of a guided internet-based stress management program for university students with high levels of stress. In this study, participants are recruited via e-mail, newsletters, and flyers from four universities in the Netherlands to participate in a guided internet-based stress management program. Guidance is delivered by e-coaches who provide weekly asynchronous text-based motivational feedback after each module is completed. Primary outcomes are satisfaction with the intervention, assessed by the Client Satisfaction Scale (CSQ-8), and usability, assessed by the System Usability Scale (SUS-10). Secondary outcomes are perceived stress, quality of life, and depression, assessed by the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10), the EuroQol- 5 Dimension- 5 Level Scale (EQ- 5D- 5L), and the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) respectively. Adherence rates to the program are assessed by examining the number of completed modules, time spent on the platform, and completed exercises. The Caring Universities Project was funded in (September 2019). In June 2020, the project was officially announced to the students and recruitment began immediately. As of October 2020, recruitment continues. The expected date of the publication of the results is in 2021. It is expected that the results of the proposed study will be informative for designing and implementing e-health interventions in higher education. Moreover, it is assumed that the findings will contribute to the growing literature on internet interventions by yielding preliminary evidence related to the feasibility and acceptability of an online stress management program. TRIAL REGISTRATION: Netherlands Trial Register NL8686; https://www.trialregister.nl/trial/8686
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spelling pubmed-78781822021-02-18 Feasibility and acceptability of a guided internet-based stress management intervention for university students with high levels of stress: Protocol for an open trial Amanvermez, Yagmur Karyotaki, Eirini Cuijpers, Pim Salemink, Elske Spinhoven, Philip Struijs, Sascha de Wit, Leonore M. Internet Interv Full length Article More than half of university students have high levels of stress. Stress management programs can help students improve coping skills and prevent psychological distress. However, studies have generally targeted all university students regardless of whether they experience high levels of stress or not, and thus more studies are needed to examine the feasibility and acceptability of e-health interventions for students with elevated stress. The present open trial aims to examine the feasibility and acceptability of a guided internet-based stress management program for university students with high levels of stress. In this study, participants are recruited via e-mail, newsletters, and flyers from four universities in the Netherlands to participate in a guided internet-based stress management program. Guidance is delivered by e-coaches who provide weekly asynchronous text-based motivational feedback after each module is completed. Primary outcomes are satisfaction with the intervention, assessed by the Client Satisfaction Scale (CSQ-8), and usability, assessed by the System Usability Scale (SUS-10). Secondary outcomes are perceived stress, quality of life, and depression, assessed by the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10), the EuroQol- 5 Dimension- 5 Level Scale (EQ- 5D- 5L), and the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) respectively. Adherence rates to the program are assessed by examining the number of completed modules, time spent on the platform, and completed exercises. The Caring Universities Project was funded in (September 2019). In June 2020, the project was officially announced to the students and recruitment began immediately. As of October 2020, recruitment continues. The expected date of the publication of the results is in 2021. It is expected that the results of the proposed study will be informative for designing and implementing e-health interventions in higher education. Moreover, it is assumed that the findings will contribute to the growing literature on internet interventions by yielding preliminary evidence related to the feasibility and acceptability of an online stress management program. TRIAL REGISTRATION: Netherlands Trial Register NL8686; https://www.trialregister.nl/trial/8686 Elsevier 2021-02-03 /pmc/articles/PMC7878182/ /pubmed/33614413 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.invent.2021.100369 Text en © 2021 The Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Amanvermez, Yagmur
Karyotaki, Eirini
Cuijpers, Pim
Salemink, Elske
Spinhoven, Philip
Struijs, Sascha
de Wit, Leonore M.
Feasibility and acceptability of a guided internet-based stress management intervention for university students with high levels of stress: Protocol for an open trial
title Feasibility and acceptability of a guided internet-based stress management intervention for university students with high levels of stress: Protocol for an open trial
title_full Feasibility and acceptability of a guided internet-based stress management intervention for university students with high levels of stress: Protocol for an open trial
title_fullStr Feasibility and acceptability of a guided internet-based stress management intervention for university students with high levels of stress: Protocol for an open trial
title_full_unstemmed Feasibility and acceptability of a guided internet-based stress management intervention for university students with high levels of stress: Protocol for an open trial
title_short Feasibility and acceptability of a guided internet-based stress management intervention for university students with high levels of stress: Protocol for an open trial
title_sort feasibility and acceptability of a guided internet-based stress management intervention for university students with high levels of stress: protocol for an open trial
topic Full length Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7878182/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33614413
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.invent.2021.100369
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