Midwifery Students and Laughter Yoga

Midwifery Clinical Trial

Official title:

The Evaluation of the Effect of Laughter Yoga on Sleep Quality and Life Satisfaction in Midwifery Students

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05773599
• Other study ID #: Ataturk University SSAHIN0001
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: January 9, 2023
• Est. completion date: January 27, 2023

Study information

• Verified date: December 2023
• Source: Ataturk University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

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.

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.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 77
• Est. completion date: January 27, 2023
• Est. primary completion date: January 13, 2023
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Female
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Students who agreed to participate in the study

Exclusion Criteria:

• not be a midwifery student

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Laughter Yoga
• Life Satisfaction
• Midwifery

Intervention

Other:
• laughter yoga
A pre-test will be applied to evaluate sleep quality and life satisfaction. Laughter yoga will be applied one day apart to the experimental group with a low sleep quality score. After dasa, sleep quality and life satisfaction will be evaluated again with

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Turkey	Atatürk University Faculty of Health Sciences Department	Erzurum	Yakuti?ye/erzurum

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Ataturk University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Turkey, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	The effect of laughter yoga on life satisfaction	The life satisfaction of students will be measured with the life satisfaction scale. The "Satisfaction with Life Scale", whose validity and reliability study was conducted in Turkish by Dagli and Baysal in 2016, has a total of five items and a 5-point Likert type, and the internal consistency coefficient of the scale has been reported to be 0.92. A high score from the scale, which has a single factor structure, indicates that the individual's life satisfaction is high.	one day
Primary	The effect of laughter yoga on sleep quality	The Cronbach's alpha internal consistency coefficient of the original scale was calculated as 0.83 and the Turkish version was 0.80. PUKI consists of 24 questions in total. The last 5 questions on the scale must be answered by the spouse or roommate. These 5 questions are used for clinical information only and are not included in the scoring. Therefore, 18 items are included in the scoring in PUKI. The questions consist of seven sub-components: subjective sleep quality, sleep latency, sleep duration, habitual sleep efficiency, sleep disturbance, use of sleep medication, and daytime dysfunction. Each question is evaluated by giving points between 0-3. The sum of the scores of these seven sub-components constitutes the total score of PUKI. The total PUKI score has a value between 0-21. Sleep quality of those with a total score of 5 and less than 5 was "good"; Sleep quality of those with a score greater than 5 is considered "poor".	28 day