2.2. Procedure
RECRUITMENT
Since registrations for the course were higher than anticipated, participants in the MTC group were divided into three batches for the weekly sessions (two on Saturday and one on Sunday) to accommodate all students over the weekend and retain sufficient individualized attention in online group sessions. This decision was made during the interviews: as the number of participants in one batch reached 25 (per protocol), the subsequent calls were assigned to subsequent batches (Saturday evening and Sunday morning).After the recruitment, screening and allocation, both groups completed assessments at two time points. First, A clinical psychologist, unrelated to the research project, interviewed the consenting participants from the MTC group after the completion of the 8-week intervention. A semi-structured interview was conducted to assess the participants’ perceived acceptability of MTC and its different elements, barriers, and facilitators (