Do you study in our University and feel that university stress is sometimes difficult to manage? Do you feel that your level of mental and physical well-being is not sufficient for you to study effectively or feel good about yourself and others?
The University of Brescia and CUS Brescia are promoting an experimental research project to observe how physical activity and stress management can improve the well-being of the student population.
The initiative is part of the activities of the Centro di Ateneo Spazio Studenti and as part of PRO-BEN, a multicenter national project involving eight universities in northern Italy, funded by the Ministry of University and Research.
By participating in the study, you will gain free access to many of Cus Brescia's courses and activities and targeted interventions for stress management, while making your own contribution to scientific research.
How does the study work?
If you decide to participate in the study, randomly you will be offered to be part of one of the following experimental groups:
- Group 1: You will be offered a short online stress management course. The duration of the course will be 5 weeks and will include 5 modules that will include some simple exercises that you can do at any time of the day.
- Group 2: You will be offered a multicomponent intervention that will include the stress management course proposed in Group 1, in a similar mode, along with an exercise program. Carrying out the exercise program will involve, FREE OF CHARGE, the membership and medical examination required to access CUS Brescia activities. Once you are a card-carrying member, you will be asked to participate, again for FREE, in two activities per week (YOUR CHOICE among many CUS Brescia classes and activities), for a period of 10 consecutive weeks.
- Group 3: You will be asked to serve as a control and therefore no intervention will be offered.
By participating in the research you will also be asked to fill out some short questionnaires: before the start of the intervention, at the end and after 3 months. These questionnaires will take about 15 minutes to complete.
To be eligible to participate, you must meet the following criteria:
- Be enrolled in bachelor's, master's or single-cycle degree programs at Brescia University at the time of recruitment.
- Have sufficient command of the Italian language.
- Not have a physical condition or illness that prevents or makes exercise risky.
- Not already do average weekly physical activity of an intense level: if you already do a lot of physical activity or train for some sport consistently, it will not be possible for you to participate in the study.
If you would like to participate or would like more information, visit the dedicated page https://www.unibs.it/en/spazio-studenti/nuovi-progetti/benessere-psicofisico or email [email protected].
Collection of memberships will be open until early March, after which it will no longer be possible to participate.