Can creative activities and mind-body practices help enhance well-being and mental health awareness? An exploratory qualitative study in UK higher education

• Marianna Cortesi ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: marianna.cortesi@york.ac.uk

  Affiliation School of Arts and Creative Technologies, University of York, York, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0883-095X

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• Federico Pendenza,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Arts and Creative Technologies, University of York, York, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3134-3957

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• Elizabeth Haddon,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Arts and Creative Technologies, University of York, York, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1689-3248

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• Andrea Schiavio

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Arts and Creative Technologies, University of York, York, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8109-9185

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