Charbonnier Elodie, Trémolière Bastien, Baussard Louise, Goncalves Aurélie, Lespiau Florence, Philippe Antony G, Le Vigouroux Sarah
UNIV. NIMES, APSY, F-30021, Nîmes Cedex, France.
Comput Hum Behav Rep. 2022 Mar;5:100175. doi: 10.1016/j.chbr.2022.100175. Epub 2022 Feb 10.
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.
新冠疫情对大学生产生了重大影响,尤其是对他们的心理健康。然而,对于如何预防和/或减轻这种影响,我们目前知之甚少。在新冠疫情之前,一些研究表明,在线压力管理项目足以成功改善学生的心理健康和压力调节策略,这表明在疫情期间应进一步开发这些干预措施。我们的研究探讨了一个针对压力管理和学习的在线项目对心理健康的影响。最初共招募了347名大学生参与一项非随机对照研究。在剔除退出者后,我们的最终样本由114名参与者组成,分为两组:干预组(参与该项目的参与者)和对照组(未参与该项目的参与者)。所测量的变量包括:焦虑和抑郁症状、学业倦怠、习得性无助和应对策略。基线(T0)与8周时(T1)的评估结果进行均值比较后发现,干预组的焦虑症状和习得性无助有所减轻,而对照组则没有。我们的初步研究报告了一个在线项目对学生心理状态的良好效果。