The ‘wellbeing’ in spite of everything: small sharing spaces with families or peer educators during the COVID-19 pandemic

Abstract

During the difficult period caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, a workshop was implemented online, leading a study
about the effectiveness of the ‘Salotti del BenEssere©’ model among students and future educators. This course is
the result of the collaboration between the Suor Orsola Benincasa University in Naples and ASL Napoli 1 Centro.
It’s a model of salutogenesis that specifically proposes a multicentre space for the evaluation and spread of healthy
lifestyles. Due to the pandemic and the consequent social isolation, the ‘keys’ to access the main topics for the healthy
lifestyle promotion were explored online in order to overcome social isolation; at the beginning of each lesson on
the Salotti del BenEssere©, audio files were provided to guide the students through the experience of each “key”:
Breathing, Nutrition and Emotions.The lessons were carried out through distance teaching on the online platform
called “Google Meet”. For evaluation purposes, questionnaires that were originally created in paper format were
transferred to the online opensharing platform “Google Forms”. The general aim of the evaluation is to establish
whether the educational process formulated by the “Salotti del BenEssere©” has an impact on self-perception in
relationships. The specific aim of this study is to verify whether there were differences between the results achieved
by the students who were able to experience the face-to-face lessons and those who were forced to attend the lessons
online and, if so, to record which ones are significant.We believe that these innovative and digital techniques can
become a tool for future educators, especially in emergency situations, to overcome social isolation.