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  "abstract": "Objective\n\nThis randomized controlled trial (RCT) was designed to evaluate the relative efficacy of a structured dancesport exercise prescription, group psychological counseling, and their combined application in reducing social anxiety symptoms among Chinese university students.Methods\n\nForty-eight university students with elevated social anxiety were recruited from the Dancesport Club of Hefei Normal University and randomly allocated to four parallel groups (n = 12 per group): a Dancesport Exercise Prescription group (DP), a Group Psychological counseling group (GC), a Combined Intervention group (DP-GC), and a no-intervention control group. Social anxiety and related psychological symptoms were assessed before and after the 12-week intervention using the Symptom Checklist-90 (SCL-90), the Interaction Anxiousness Scale (IAS), the Social Avoidance and Distress Scale (SAD), and the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale (LSAS). Group differences over time were examined using a 4 × 2 Group × Time repeated-measures framework, supplemented by adjusted post hoc comparisons, effect-size estimates, and 95% confidence intervals.Results\n\nThe three active intervention conditions showed greater pre-to-post reductions in social anxiety-related outcomes than the control condition. The combined DP-GC group showed the largest improvement across the measured outcomes. However, because the combined condition integrated two intervention components within the same scheduled sessions and the sample size was small, the observed advantage is interpreted cautiously as a potential additive benefit rather than definitive evidence of a true synergistic interaction.Conclusion\n\nDancesport exercise prescription and group psychological counseling may each reduce social anxiety symptoms among college students, with complementary scale-specific effects. The combined intervention model appears promising, but its superiority should be interpreted cautiously in light of the integrated intervention design, small sample size, and reliance on self-report outcomes.",
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  "affiliations": [
    "School of Marxism, Huainan Normal University, Huainan, Anhui, China.",
    "School of Politics and Public Administration, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, China.",
    "Department of Student Affairs, Jiaxing Vocational Technical College, Jiaxing, China.",
    "Chongqing College of International Business and Economics, College of Physical Education and Health, Chongqing, China.",
    "College of Marine Life Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China.",
    "Department of Orthopedics, The Second Affiliated Hospital and Yuying Children's Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China.",
    "School of Physical Education, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, Hebei, China."
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      "name": "Mengmeng Yuan"
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      "name": "Chen Jie"
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      "name": "Dan Gong"
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      "name": "Shunli Wu"
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      "name": "Weikai Chen"
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      ],
      "name": "Yuanning Li"
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  "doi": "10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1854500",
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  "language": "eng",
  "licence": "CC-BY",
  "licence_label": "CC BY",
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  "pdf_url": "https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC13688642?pdf=render",
  "pmcid": "PMC13688642",
  "pmid": "42924032",
  "published": "2026-10-07",
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  "ris": "https://research.draconitic.com/paper/1vep17xgts552.ris",
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  "title": "Social anxiety intervention for college students: the effect of Dancesport exercise prescriptions combined with group psychological counseling.",
  "title_text": "Social anxiety intervention for college students: the effect of Dancesport exercise prescriptions combined with group psychological counseling.",
  "type": "peer-reviewed",
  "updated_at": "2026-10-30T12:20:36Z",
  "url": "https://research.draconitic.com/paper/1vep17xgts552",
  "venue": "Frontiers in psychology",
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