Study participants
anxiety
RECRUITMENT, RECRUITMENT
Of the 114 participants in the intervention groups of the RCT, 20 participants (i.e., OLP n = 10 and IP n = 10) were randomly selected to take part in the qualitative study. In case participants either did not want to take part in the study or did not respond to the recruitment request, the next person on the randomized list was contacted until ten participants per group were reached. The sample consisted of students at the University of Basel, who had an exam at least four weeks ahead and self-reported suffering from test anxiety. The students’ test anxiety was within the normal range of anxiety scores (below 60), indicating that our participants were a non-clinical group with average test anxiety scores.Being a master’s student, insufficient German skills, and problems swallowing pills were reasons for exclusion. Incentives to take part in this nested qualitative study were credit points or a fixed monetary compensation (20 Swiss Francs). Recruitment took place between June 2020 and June 2021. 