Effect of Laughter Yoga on Nursing Students

Istanbul University - Cerrahpasa

Status: Completed

Conditions: Laughter; Well-Being, Psychological; Stress

Treatments: Other: Laugther Yoga

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06175936

Florence Nightingale Faculty-3

Details and patient eligibility

About

Nursing students experience different levels of stress due to many reasons such as lifestyle, health, academic performance, competition, choice of profession, new living environment, relationships with peer group and expectations of parents. It is important to develop different coping behaviours/strategies to manage stressful situations. Laughter yoga has proven positive effects on physical and mental health.

The aim of this randomised controlled trial was to examine the effects of laughter yoga on well-being, perceived stress and academic self-efficacy of nursing students.

Full description

Laughter yoga, which is a combination of laughter and yoga with breathing techniques, is among traditional and complementary medicine practices. Based on the view that the brain cannot distinguish between real and unreal laughter, laughter yoga aims to benefit from the mental and physical benefits of laughter. Laughter yoga has benefits such as reducing stress and depression symptoms, relaxing muscle tone, increasing blood circulation, lowering blood pressure, increasing melatonin and growth hormone release, increasing pain threshold, strengthening the immune system.

Laughter yoga will be applied to the intervention group in 6 sessions (45 minutes each session). Well-being, Perceived Stress and Academic Self-Efficacy levels of the students will be evaluated before and after the intervention.

Hypotheses of the study; H1: The well-being level of the intervention group increases after laughter yoga.

H2: The academic self-efficacy level of the intervention group increases after laughter yoga.

H3: Perceived stress level of the intervention group decreases after laughter yoga.

H4: The well-being level of the intervention group after laughter yoga is higher than the control group.

H5: The perceived stress level of the intervention group after laughter yoga is lower than the control group.

H6: The academic self-efficacy level of the intervention group after laughter yoga is higher than the control group.

Enrollment: 80 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 40 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• To be a 4th year nursing student,
• Volunteer to participate

Exclusion criteria

• To take part in the intern programme,
• Simultaneous participation in any methods of complementary medicine,
• Having undergone surgery within the last three months,
• Having a diagnosis of hernia (hernia)
• Having a diagnosis of epilepsy
• Uncontrolled diabetes and cardiovascular disease

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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80 participants in 2 patient groups

Laughter yoga group

Experimental group

Description:

Laughter yoga will be applied to the intervention group in 6 sessions (45 minutes each session). Laughter yoga consists of four parts. Firstly, it starts with warm-up exercises including hand clapping (applause), singing "ho ho ha ha" to relax the facial muscles of the participants and body movements. Secondly, the lungs are prepared with breathing exercises and the mind is prepared for laughter with childish games. This is followed by laughter exercises. Deep breathing exercises are performed between laughter exercises. Laughter yoga is concluded with clapping, singing and relaxation exercises.

Treatment:

Other: Laugther Yoga

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

No laughter yoga intervention will be applied to the control group.