Reward Under Stress: Effects of a Multidimensional Stress Prevention Program in University Students

Purpose: This study developed a culturally appropriate cognitive behavioral group prevention program for Mainland Chinese university students in Hong Kong and tested its effectiveness. Method: A total of 74 Chinese students were recruited and randomly assigned to an 8-week cognitive behavior prevention program (experimental group) or a waiting list control (WLC) group. Results: Compared with the WLC group, participants in the experimental group significantly reduced psychological distress, acculturative stress, negative emotions, and negative thoughts and increased positive emotions, positive thoughts, and postmigration growth, with medium to large effect sizes. Upon immediate completion of the program, about 46% and 30% of the participants in the experimental group and WLC group, respectively, were classified as non-at-risk cases for developing mental health problems. Discussion: The positive intervention effects and clinical implication of cultural adaptation of cognitive behavioral group therapy to Chinese students are discussed.

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Evaluation of an STD-Prevention Program for Swedish University Students

Journal of American College Health ◽

10.1080/07448489809595622 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 47 (2) ◽

pp. 70-75 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Tanja Tydén ◽

Marie Bergholm ◽

Anders Hallén ◽

Viveca Odlind ◽

Sven-Eric Olsson ◽

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Keyword(s):

University Students ◽

Prevention Program ◽

Std Prevention

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Development and Effect of a Metabolic Syndrome Prevention Program for University Students using Mobile Application

Child Health Nursing Research ◽

10.4094/chnr.2014.20.3.205 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 20 (3) ◽

pp. 205 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Han-Kyu Kang ◽

Tae-Bin Kim ◽

Kyu-Hyung Kim ◽

Min-Jin Kim ◽

Jin-Hyun Kim ◽

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Keyword(s):

Metabolic Syndrome ◽

University Students ◽

Prevention Program ◽

Mobile Application

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LONGITUDINAL EFFECT OF THE PUNAV PREVENTION PROGRAM ON NORMATIVE BELIEFS AND ALCOHOL USE AMONG UNIVERSITY STUDENTS.

Psychological Applications and Trends 2021 ◽

10.36315/2021inpact087 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Ondrej Kalina ◽

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Lucia Barbierik ◽

Jozef Benka

Keyword(s):

Substance Use ◽

Alcohol Consumption ◽

Alcohol Use ◽

University Students ◽

Regression Model ◽

Prevention Program ◽

Universal Prevention ◽

Normative Beliefs ◽

Harmful Use ◽

Over Time

"The universal Prevention Program of Substance Use among University Students (PUNAV) is based on the strategy of correcting normative beliefs (NBs) regarding alcohol use. The current research shown that NBs are a significant factor in relation to alcohol consumption. This study has explored whether a change of NBs is associated with a decrease of alcohol use among university students. The data used in this study were collected before the implementation of PUNAV in September 2018 (N=137, Mage = 21.9, 77% women) and 18 months later after the implementation of the program in March 2020 (N=54, 77% women). Participants provided information on alcohol consumption, alcohol dependence, alcohol harmful use and descriptive NBs regarding alcohol consumption. The level of NBs at T2 was subtracted from level of NB at T1 (T1 – T2) to identify changes in NBs over time. Using SPSS 21, a linear regression model which controlled for the level of the outcome variables at T1 and observed changes in NBs were used to predict the outcome variables measured at T2. Alcohol consumption and NBs after PUNAV decreased alcohol consumption but increased the dependence and alcohol harmful consequences. The regression model, which controlled for alcohol use at T1, showed that a significant change in NBs was negatively associated with alcohol consumption at T2. The findings have in general shown that the observed changes in NBs (corrected NBs) were more likely to decrease alcohol consumption among university students."

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