2. Writing Retreats as a Mean to Improve Mental Health of Doctoral Researchers
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Studies on doctoral mental health reveal that doctoral researchers face more tasks and responsibilities than ordinary employees. They often extend their working hours to evenings and weekends to assist or coordinate research projects, teach courses, earn a living, and work on their doctoral dissertation [According to literature review on interventions to improve doctoral researchers’ mental health by Mackie and Bates (2019) [Similar to writing groups, structured writing retreats emerged as promising interventions for promoting doctoral researchers’ mental health. These retreats involve organized multi-day events where participants gather in a common space to write, share goals, and address challenges together [