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Effects of an online self-help intervention on university students’ mental health during COVID-19: A non-randomized controlled pilot study()

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a major impact on university students, particulary on their mental health. However, little is yet known about how to prevent and/or reduce this impact. Prior to COVID-19, some studies have shown that online stress management programs were successful enough to improve st...

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Autores principales: Charbonnier, Elodie, Trémolière, Bastien, Baussard, Louise, Goncalves, Aurélie, Lespiau, Florence, Philippe, Antony G., Le Vigouroux, Sarah
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8830176/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35169655
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chbr.2022.100175
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author Charbonnier, Elodie
Trémolière, Bastien
Baussard, Louise
Goncalves, Aurélie
Lespiau, Florence
Philippe, Antony G.
Le Vigouroux, Sarah
author_facet Charbonnier, Elodie
Trémolière, Bastien
Baussard, Louise
Goncalves, Aurélie
Lespiau, Florence
Philippe, Antony G.
Le Vigouroux, Sarah
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description The COVID-19 pandemic has had a major impact on university students, particulary on their mental health. However, little is yet known about how to prevent and/or reduce this impact. Prior to COVID-19, some studies have shown that online stress management programs were successful enough to improve students' mental health and stress adjustment strategies, suggesting that these interventions should be further developed during the pandemic. Our study explored the effects on mental health of an online program that targeted stress management and learning. A total of 347 university students were initially recruited to take part in a non-randomized controlled study. After dropout, our final sample consisted of 114 participants, divided into two groups: an intervention group (participants who took part in the program) and the control group (participants who did not participate in the program). The variables measured were: anxiety and depressive symptoms, academic burnout, learned helplessness, and coping strategies. Means comparisons between baseline (T0) and an assessment at 8 weeks (T1) revealed reductions in anxiety symptoms and learned helplessness in the intervention group, but not in the control group. Our pilot study reports promising effects of an online program on students' psychological state.
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spelling pubmed-88301762022-02-11 Effects of an online self-help intervention on university students’ mental health during COVID-19: A non-randomized controlled pilot study() Charbonnier, Elodie Trémolière, Bastien Baussard, Louise Goncalves, Aurélie Lespiau, Florence Philippe, Antony G. Le Vigouroux, Sarah Comput Hum Behav Rep Article The COVID-19 pandemic has had a major impact on university students, particulary on their mental health. However, little is yet known about how to prevent and/or reduce this impact. Prior to COVID-19, some studies have shown that online stress management programs were successful enough to improve students' mental health and stress adjustment strategies, suggesting that these interventions should be further developed during the pandemic. Our study explored the effects on mental health of an online program that targeted stress management and learning. A total of 347 university students were initially recruited to take part in a non-randomized controlled study. After dropout, our final sample consisted of 114 participants, divided into two groups: an intervention group (participants who took part in the program) and the control group (participants who did not participate in the program). The variables measured were: anxiety and depressive symptoms, academic burnout, learned helplessness, and coping strategies. Means comparisons between baseline (T0) and an assessment at 8 weeks (T1) revealed reductions in anxiety symptoms and learned helplessness in the intervention group, but not in the control group. Our pilot study reports promising effects of an online program on students' psychological state. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2022-03 2022-02-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8830176/ /pubmed/35169655 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chbr.2022.100175 Text en © 2022 The Authors Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Effects of an online self-help intervention on university students’ mental health during COVID-19: A non-randomized controlled pilot study()
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title_short Effects of an online self-help intervention on university students’ mental health during COVID-19: A non-randomized controlled pilot study()
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35169655
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chbr.2022.100175
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