The Effect of Laughter Yoga Applied to Nursing Students on Exam Anxiety and Spirituality

Kırıkkale University

Status

Active, not recruiting

Conditions

Spirituality

Anxiety

Exam Stress

Treatments

Other: laughter yoga

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT06943430

KKU-SBF-HT-01

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is planned as a randomized controlled trial to determine the effect of laughter yoga on the exam anxiety and spirituality levels of nursing students. The research will be conducted with 100 second-year nursing students between 04.2025 and 06.2025. Students who meet the inclusion criteria will be randomized and divided into two groups: the experimental group (n=36) and the control group (n=36). All participating students will be administered the "Demographic Characteristics Form," "Exam Anxiety Scale," and "Spirituality Scale" (pre-test).

The experimental group will undergo laughter yoga sessions twice a week for 4 weeks, totaling 8 sessions.

The control group will only complete the "Demographic Characteristics Form," "Exam Anxiety Scale," and "Spirituality Scale" (pre-test). No intervention will be applied to the control group.

After the laughter yoga sessions are completed, both the experimental and control groups will complete the "Demographic Characteristics Form," "Exam Anxiety Scale," and "Spirituality Scale" (post-test).

The collected data will be analyzed using SPSS 22 software.

Full description

Research Hypotheses:

Laughter yoga reduces exam anxiety in nursing students. Laughter yoga increases the spirituality levels of nursing students. This research aims to examine the effects of laughter yoga on exam anxiety and spirituality levels in nursing students. The researcher has completed a two-day "Laughter Yoga Leader" training with an Internationally Certified Laughter Yoga Instructor and has received the "Laughter Yoga Trainer Training" certificate. The study was conducted with an experimental design, including an experimental group and a control group. The interventions were applied by the researcher, who holds the "Laughter Yoga Leader" certification.

The sample was selected using the simple random sampling method, and participants were initially administered the "Demographic Information Form," "Exam Anxiety Scale," and "Spirituality Scale." After obtaining ethical committee approval, laughter yoga sessions were applied to students in the experimental group, while no intervention was provided to the control group. As the study was designed experimentally, both groups were initially evaluated using the same measurement tools, and then the experimental group underwent laughter yoga sessions. After the laughter yoga sessions, data were collected from both groups using the same measurement tools, and changes in exam anxiety and spirituality levels were analyzed.

The collected data were evaluated to analyze the changes in exam anxiety and spirituality levels. This study aims to determine the effects of laughter yoga on reducing exam anxiety and increasing spirituality levels in nursing students.

Enrollment

36 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 30 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Being a 2nd-year student in the Nursing Department
Able to speak and understand Turkish
Voluntarily agreeing to participate in the study
No visual or hearing impairments
No history of psychiatric illness
No current or past use of psychotropic medication

Exclusion criteria

Refusal to participate in the study
Inability to speak or understand Turkish
Diagnosed psychiatric illness and/or use of psychotropic agents
Previous participation in laughter yoga
Physical limitations or respiratory problems preventing yoga practice
Difficulty in performing breathing exercises due to conditions such as septum deviation
Abdominal surgery within the past 6 months

Drop-out Criteria: