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Table 1 Outline of the content of the internet-based self-help program ROCO

From: An internet-based self-help intervention for people with psychological distress due to COVID-19: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Introduction

Information about the self-help program

1. Identifying consequences and challenges

Information about psychological distress/adjustment problems due to the COVID-19 pandemic, assessment of the current state (bodily sensations, positive and negative feelings), resource-oriented weekly task

2. Understanding own feelings

Information about feelings such as anxiety, helplessness, anger, sense of shame and sadness, strategies to cope with these feelings, acceptance-oriented weekly task

3. Changing the perspective

Information about the influence of thoughts, automatic thoughts, rumination and irrational beliefs, exercises to challenge own thinking patterns, weekly task on rumination

4. Strengthening resilience

Information about resilience and three possible ways of gaining resilience, namely coping, joie de vivre and optimism, exercises to promote these, resource-oriented weekly task

5. Finding rest

Information about sleep, sleep hygiene and relaxation techniques, progressive muscle relaxation as a weekly task

6. Taking care of oneself

Information about the concept of posttraumatic growth and the importance of pleasure, exercises of gratitude and mindfulness, resource-oriented weekly task

Conclusion

Information about the importance of practicing and transferring what has been learnt to daily life