2.2. Participants
RECRUITMENT
Student participants. Freshmen and sophomore students 18 years or older were eligible to participate. Participants were recruited through campus flyers, recruitment tables in front of the student center building, and classroom visits to a course that all freshmen are required to take. We also purposely recruited from programs serving historically underrepresented populations, including first-generation students and students from minoritized races/ethnicities, since such students were disproportionately affected by the pandemic and generally experienced greater barriers to participation in health programming. A total of 52 participants were recruited. After completing the pre-assessment, they were randomly assigned into the coaching group (n = 28) or the control group (n = 24). 