The Effect of Laughter Yoga on Spiritual Care Perception and Spiritual Well Being in Nursing Students

Izmir Democracy University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Spirituality; Laughter Yoga; Spiritual Well-being

Treatments: Other: Laughter Yoga

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07062029

2024/6-20

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if laughter yoga sessions improve spiritual well-being and perception of spiritual care among nursing students. The main questions it aims to answer are:

Does laughter yoga increase the spiritual well-being scores of participants? Does laughter yoga improve participants' perception of spiritual care? Researchers will compare laughter yoga to no intervention (control group) to see if laughter yoga has an effect on spiritual well-being and spiritual care perception.

Participants will:

Attend laughter yoga sessions once a week for 4 weeks (intervention group) Complete questionnaires about their spiritual well-being and perception of spiritual care before and after the intervention Control group will not receive any intervention during this period, but will complete the same questionnaires at the same time points

Full description

This randomized controlled trial aims to evaluate the effects of laughter yoga on spiritual well-being and perception of spiritual care among nursing students. The study uses a pretest-posttest control group design. A total of 60 nursing students in their third and fourth years were randomly assigned to either the intervention group or the control group, with 30 students in each group.

The intervention group will participate in laughter yoga sessions once a week for 4 weeks. Each session will last approximately 30 minutes and will be conducted by a certified laughter yoga leader in a quiet classroom environment where students can move freely. The control group will not receive any intervention during the study period.

Spiritual well-being will be measured using the Spiritual Well-Being Scale (SWBS) and perception of spiritual care will be measured using the Spiritual Care-Giving Scale (SCGS). Both scales will be administered before the intervention (pretest) and after the 4-week intervention period (posttest).

The study hypothesizes that laughter yoga will significantly increase spiritual well-being scores and improve students' perception of spiritual care compared to the control group.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Being a third- or fourth-year nursing student enrolled in the Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Nursing at Izmir Demokrasi University during the 2024-2025 academic year
• Volunteering to participate in the study

Exclusion criteria

• Irregular attendance to the intervention sessions
• Failure to complete all sessions
• Voluntary withdrawal from the study
• Having a diagnosis of a respiratory disease (e.g., asthma, bronchitis, dyspnea)
• Having a diagnosis of inguinal hernia or epilepsy
• Having undergone abdominal surgery within the last three to six months

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

Laughter Yoga Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Participants in this arm will attend laughter yoga sessions once a week for 4 weeks. Each session will last approximately 30 minutes and will be conducted by a certified laughter yoga leader in a quiet classroom environment where participants can move freely. The intervention aims to improve spiritual well-being and perception of spiritual care among nursing students.

Treatment:

Other: Laughter Yoga

Control Group

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants in this arm will not receive any intervention during the 4-week study period. They will complete the same pretest and posttest questionnaires as the intervention group, at the same time points, to evaluate their spiritual well-being and perception of spiritual care.