Effects of Laughter Yoga on Hemodialysis Patients' Plasma-Beta Endorphin Levels, Pain Levels and Sleep Quality

Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hemodialysis Patients; Laughter Yoga

Treatments: Behavioral: Laughter yoga

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04175652

2017-314

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aimed to assess the effectiveness of laughter yoga on HD patients' plasma beta endorphin levels, pain levels and sleep quality.

Full description

While there are studies conducted with laughter yoga on different patient groups in Turkey, no studies have been found on hemodialysis patients specifically. For this reason, it was thought that studies are needed which will prove the effect of laughter yoga practices on the plasma beta-endorphin levels, pain levels and sleep quality of hemodialysis patients.

Enrollment: 68 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• receiving treatment in a dialysis center
• must be between 18 and 80 years old and willing to participate in the study
• receiving HD treatment at least twice a week for a month or longer
• having a pain level and above
• level of 5 above according to the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index.

Exclusion criteria

• not taking any medicine for sleeping disorder
• not having any visual, hearing or communication impairments
• not having any mental disorders

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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68 participants in 2 patient groups

Laughter yoga group, group doing laughter yoga

Experimental group

Description:

The duration of the laughter yoga was 30 minutes and a total of 16 sessions were performed on a twice-weekly basis.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Laughter yoga

No laughter yoga group, group not doing laughter yoga

No Intervention group