Effect of Laughter Yoga on Nursing Students

Stress Clinical Trial

Official title:

The Effect of Laughter Yoga on Nursing Students' Well-Being, Perceived Stress and Academic Self-Efficacy: A Randomised Controlled Study

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT06175936
• Other study ID #: Florence Nightingale Faculty-3
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: October 16, 2023
• Est. completion date: December 30, 2023

Study information

• Verified date: December 2023
• Source: Istanbul University - Cerrahpasa (IUC)
• Contact: Olga Incesu, Dr
• Phone: +905334942989
• Email: olga.incesu[@]iuc.edu.tr
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Nursing students experience different levels of stress due to many reasons such as lifestyle, health, academic performance, competition, choice of profession, new living environment, relationships with peer group and expectations of parents. It is important to develop different coping behaviours/strategies to manage stressful situations. Laughter yoga has proven positive effects on physical and mental health.

The aim of this randomised controlled trial was to examine the effects of laughter yoga on well-being, perceived stress and academic self-efficacy of nursing students.

Description:

Laughter yoga, which is a combination of laughter and yoga with breathing techniques, is among traditional and complementary medicine practices. Based on the view that the brain cannot distinguish between real and unreal laughter, laughter yoga aims to benefit from the mental and physical benefits of laughter. Laughter yoga has benefits such as reducing stress and depression symptoms, relaxing muscle tone, increasing blood circulation, lowering blood pressure, increasing melatonin and growth hormone release, increasing pain threshold, strengthening the immune system.

Laughter yoga will be applied to the intervention group in 6 sessions (45 minutes each session). Well-being, Perceived Stress and Academic Self-Efficacy levels of the students will be evaluated before and after the intervention.

Hypotheses of the study; H1: The well-being level of the intervention group increases after laughter yoga.

H2: The academic self-efficacy level of the intervention group increases after laughter yoga.

H3: Perceived stress level of the intervention group decreases after laughter yoga.

H4: The well-being level of the intervention group after laughter yoga is higher than the control group.

H5: The perceived stress level of the intervention group after laughter yoga is lower than the control group.

H6: The academic self-efficacy level of the intervention group after laughter yoga is higher than the control group.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 80
• Est. completion date: December 30, 2023
• Est. primary completion date: November 29, 2023
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 40 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• To be a 4th year nursing student,

• Volunteer to participate

Exclusion Criteria:

• To take part in the intern programme,

• Simultaneous participation in any methods of complementary medicine,

• Having undergone surgery within the last three months,

• Having a diagnosis of hernia (hernia)

• Having a diagnosis of epilepsy

• Uncontrolled diabetes and cardiovascular disease

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Stress

Intervention

Other:
• Laugther Yoga
Laughter yoga will be applied to the intervention group in 6 sessions (45 minutes each session).

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Turkey	Olga Incesu	Istanbul	Sisli

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Istanbul University - Cerrahpasa (IUC)

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Turkey, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Well being	The WHO-5 well-being Scale point of the intervention group change laughter yoga.	2 weeks post intervention
Primary	Academic self-efficcay	The academic self-efficacy point of the intervention group change after laughter yoga.	2 weeks post intervention
Primary	Stress	The perceived stress scale point of the intervention group change after laughter yoga.	2 weeks post intervention