A Compassion-Focused Online Single-Session Intervention to Reduce Academic Stress in University Students: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial

Clara Wehlage   ¹ , BSc ;   Sofija Zivanovic   ¹ , BSc ;   Helen Koechlin   ^{2, 3, 4} , PhD ;   Nathalie Sarah Schicktanz   ⁵ , PhD ;   Olivia Bolt   ¹ , PhD ;   Dorothée Bentz   ¹ , PhD

¹ Clinical Psychology and Translational Psychotherapy Research, Faculty of Psychology, University of Basel, Basel, Basel-City, Switzerland

² Department of Psychosomatics and Psychiatry, University Children’s Hospital, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

³ Children’s Research Centre, University Children’s Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

⁴ Department of Psychology, Division of Child and Adolescent Health Psychology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

⁵ Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Basel-City, Switzerland