Midwifery Students and Laughter Yoga

Ataturk University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Laughter Yoga; Midwifery; Life Satisfaction

Treatments: Other: laughter yoga

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05773599

Ataturk University SSAHIN0001

Details and patient eligibility

About

No study was found as a result of the literature review. It is thought that laughter yoga will affect the life satisfaction and sleep quality of individuals due to reasons such as increasing oxygen saturation in the blood, strengthening mental functions, providing mental well-being and reducing stress. stress and mental fatigue are thought to affect life satisfaction and sleep quality, so it was planned to evaluate the effect of laughter yoga on life satisfaction and sleep quality.

Full description

With laughter, oxygen saturation in the brain and body increases. Laughter yoga basically includes breathing, meditation and different stretching movements. Benefits of laughter yoga; relaxes the muscles, reduces the level of stress hormones, ensures effective breathing, increases pain tolerance, strengthens mental functions, stimulates the circulatory and immune system, reduces anxiety and depression symptoms, improves quality of life and creates psychosocial well-being. Life satisfaction is the result obtained by comparing the expectations of the individual with what he has. Life satisfaction is affected by many factors such as daily stress, work life, social relations, and mental state. Life satisfaction is not related to certain areas, but to be happy in all areas of life.

Sleep is of great importance in fulfilling daily functions and in maintaining mental and physical health. sleep quality; It is the quantitative evaluation of sleep such as the time to fall asleep, the total time spent in sleep, the number of awakenings, and the duration of awakening.

Enrollment: 77 patients

Sex: Female

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Students who agreed to participate in the study

Exclusion criteria

• not be a midwifery student

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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77 participants in 2 patient groups

laughter yoga

Experimental group

Description:

A pre-test will be applied to evaluate sleep quality and life satisfaction. 4 sessions of laughter yoga will be applied to the experimental group with a low sleep quality score, one day apart. Afterwards, sleep quality and life satisfaction will be evaluated with the posttest.

Treatment:

Other: laughter yoga

kontrol

No Intervention group

Description:

A pre-test will be applied to evaluate sleep quality and life satisfaction. The control group with a low sleep quality score will not receive any intervention. In parallel with the experimental group, sleep quality and life satisfaction will be evaluated again with the posttest.