The Effects of a Relaxation Intervention on College Students' Social-emotional Competence

University of Évora

Status: Completed

Conditions: Stress

Treatments: Other: Psychomotor Relaxation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05694468

28122022

Details and patient eligibility

About

Objective: To examine the impact of a psychomotor relaxation program on college students' social-emotional competence, personal and professional development. Participants: Twenty female college students participated. Methods: In this non-random one-group repeated measures study with a mixed approach (quantitative and qualitative analysis), participants were tested on two occasions 4 weeks apart (baseline measure), and then engaged in the psychomotor relaxation program twice weekly for 8 weeks. Participants were tested again after the intervention program (post-test).

Full description

This was a non-random one-group repeated measures study with a mixed approach (quantitative and qualitative analysis), where participants served as their own controls.

The investigators examined the chronic effects of the intervention program, collecting the instruments online at week 1 (pretest 1) and week 5 (pretest 2), to establish the baseline measures, and at the end of the 8-week period (post-test). In the post-test evaluation, participants also completed the questionnaire with open-ended questions. Investigators also measured salivary cortisol at the beginning and end of the 1st and the 15th sessions to evaluate the acute effects of the intervention program.

Students participated in a psychomotor relaxation program comprised by two 20-minute sessions per week for 8 weeks, combining body awareness, muscle tone regulation and breathing exercises

Enrollment: 20 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 30 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• age between 18 and 30 years old
• not having participated in a similar intervention program within the last 6 months
• not have a physical condition that can affect participation in the program
• do not take medication that can influence the studied outcomes.

Exclusion criteria

• age under 18 or over 30 years old
• have participated in a similar intervention program within the last 6 months
• have a physical condition that can affect participation in the program
• take medication that can influence the studied outcomes.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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20 participants in 1 patient group

Control and Intervention group

Other group

Description:

In this non-random one-group repeated measures study with a mixed approach (quantitative and qualitative analysis), participants were tested on two occasions 4 weeks apart (baseline measure), and then engaged in the psychomotor relaxation program twice weekly for 8 weeks. Participants were tested again after the intervention program (post-test). The participants took part in a psychomotor relaxation program comprised by two 20-minute sessions per week for 8 weeks, with the whole class, and combined body awareness, muscle tone regulation and breathing exercises.

Treatment:

Other: Psychomotor Relaxation