Abstract College and graduate students have been facing increasing stress levels in recent years, highlighting a need for stress management tools to help combat rising stress. A potential tool to examine is the multisensory environment (MSE), a room providing customizable sensory inputs, which has been shown in literature to be able to reduce feelings of stress. The project aimed to explore the effects of the MSE on self-reported perceived stress levels in college and graduate students and explore...

Abstract Among graduate students there is a high level of stress and anxiety reported. Most of the literature focuses on techniques to combat stress and anxiety among students from nursing or medical professions, which does not accurately represent the healthcare field. The purpose of this research was to explore the effects of complementary health approaches on the experience of stress and anxiety among doctoral level occupational therapy (OTD) students. The following research question was...