A Compassion-Focused Online Single-Session Intervention to Reduce Stress in the Academic Context: A randomized-controlled trial

Status

Recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

DRKS

Registry ID

DRKS00038409

Enrollment

156

Registered

2025-11-20

Start date

2025-11-24

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2026-01-12

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Conditions

Stress in the Academic Context

Interventions

Group 1: Intervention group: Self-guided, online single-session intervention (SSI) based on Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT). Group 2: Waitlist-control group: No intervention during the study particip

full access to the self-guided, online single-session intervention (SSI) based on Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) after study completion.

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

18 Years to 65 Years

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: - Healthy students of Universities of German-speaking Switzerland - Fluent in German - Currently not undergoing psychological or psychiatric treatment - DASS stress scale score > 7

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: - Currently undergoing psychological or psychiatric treatment - Insufficient German language skills to understand the instructions - DASS depression scale score >=10 and/or DASS item score 21 >= 2 - DASS stress scale score < 8

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Stress difference score (follow-up - baseline) T1 = baseline, T3 = follow-up (one week after T2, T2 = 24-h after the intervention) German version of DASS-21 stress scale (Nilges & Essau, 2015)	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
- Depression difference score (follow-up (T3) - baseline (T1)), German version of DASS-21 depression scale - Anxiety difference score (follow-up (T3) - baseline (T1)), German version of DASS-21 anxiety scale	—

Countries

Switzerland

Contacts

Public ContactDorothée Bentz

Universität Basel, Fakultät für Psychologie, Klinische Psychologie und Translationale Psychotherapieforschung

dorothee.bentz@unibas.ch+41 61 207 02 29

Outcome results

None listed

Source: DRKS (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026