Abstract
The objective of the study was to analyze the main risk factors, which affect the student population and to suggest intervention measures, which will lead to a reduced risk of the development of excessive burdening which may lead in students to failure as regards their academic work a health. Based on the results of the investigation a programme of anti-stres intervention was elaborated, which was made available to university counseling centres and can be found on the internet adress www.szu.cz/poradna/uspesnystudent/.