CLINICAL TRIAL published: 15 July 2020 doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00590 Promoting Mental Health and Psychological Thriving in University Students: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Three Well-Being Interventions Emma M. Seppälä 1,2*†, Christina Bradley 1†, Julia Moeller 3, Leilah Harouni 1,4, Dhruv Nandamudi 5 and Marc A. Brackett 1 Edited by: Liam Mason, 1 Yale Child Study Center & Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States, 2 Center for University College London, Compassion and Altruism Research and Education, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, 3 Department of Education, United Kingdom Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany, 4 Yale School of Management, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States, 5 Medical Reviewed by: Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom Carlos Freire, University of A Coruña, Spain Alyson Dodd, This study aimed to address the decline in mental health on U.S. university campuses by Northumbria University, examining the effects of three interventions. University students suffer from high levels of United Kingdom anxiety, depression, and suicide. Counseling centers on university campuses are *Correspondence: Emma M. Seppälä struggling to meet increased demand. The cost to students and universities could be
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