Clinical trial NCT05634343: Laughter Therapy and Mindfulness Practices
Official title: Laughter Therapy and Mindfulness Practices in Nurses
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Nurse's Role
Keywords: Mindfulness, Attention, Laughter therapy, Job performance, Fatigue
Lead sponsor: Bayburt University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey
First posted: 2022-12-02
Enrollment: 117
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: The research examines the effects of laughter and mindfulness on some parameters (fatigue, performance and attention) in nurses.
Primary purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Brief summary: Nurses working by shifts under intense stress and pressure and using complicated technological products- undergo fatigue and attention deficit with the effect of the many negative factors caused by work setting. This threatens patient and staff safety as well as leads to communicational problems, work absenteeism, lowered motivation, inability to control stress and poor work performance and productivity among nurses as well. In this sense; laughter therapy and mindfulness practices may help nurses cope with these problems because some experimental studies proved that both methods showed many benefits in different samples. However; no studies in which these two methods were compared among nurses were encountered. Therefore; the study -being in experimental design and randomized controlled trial- will be undertaken with a total of 111 nurses employed at a university hospital -37 nurses allocated to the experimental 1 group, 37 nurses to the experimental 2 group and 37 nurses to the control group-. First; Computer-Based Sustained Attention Test, the Stroop Test Çapa Version, The Chalder Fatigue Scale (CFQ) and Individual Work Performance Questionnaire will be administered to the nurses of the experimental and control groups as a pre-test. Then; nurses of the experimental 1 group will join sessions of laughter therapy (30-45 minutes twice a week for 8 weeks) and nurses of the experimental 2 group will join sessions of mindfulness practices (45-60 minutes twice a week for 8 weeks) for two months. One month later when the sessions are started, a mid test will be administered and soon after the sessions are completed a post test will be administered to the nurses via Computer-Based Sustained Attention Test, the Stroop Test Çapa Version, The Chalder Fatigue Scale (CFQ) and Individual Work Performance Questionnaire. One month later after the post test; a follow-up will be performed using the same tools. As a result; the effects of both applications on fatigue, attention and performance will be investigated.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* at least 6 months experience
* volunteering
* alternative work schedule

Exclusion Criteria:

* Not being a nurse,
* Pregnancy
* Diagnosis of colour blindness, cardiovascular, psychological diseases
* Meditating before

Primary outcomes:
measure: Personal Information Form
timeFrame: First day
measure: Chalder Fatigue Scale
timeFrame: First day
measure: Computer-Based Sustainable Attention Test
timeFrame: First day
measure: Stroop Test Çapa Form
timeFrame: First day
measure: Individual Job Performance Scale
timeFrame: First day
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Chalder Fatigue Scale
timeFrame: At the end of the 1st month
measure: Computer-Based Sustainable Attention Test
timeFrame: At the end of the 1st month
measure: Stroop Test Çapa Form
timeFrame: At the end of the 1st month
measure: Individual Job Performance Scale
timeFrame: At the end of the 1st month
measure: Chalder Fatigue Scale
timeFrame: At the end of the 2st month
measure: Computer-Based Sustainable Attention Test
timeFrame: At the end of the 2st month
measure: Stroop Test Çapa Form
timeFrame: At the end of the 2st month
measure: Individual Job Performance Scale
timeFrame: At the end of the 2st month
measure: Chalder Fatigue Scale
timeFrame: At the end of the 3st month
measure: Computer-Based Sustainable Attention Test
timeFrame: At the end of the 3st month
measure: Stroop Test Çapa Form
timeFrame: At the end of the 3st month
measure: Individual Job Performance Scale
timeFrame: At the end of the 3st month
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Bayburt
country: Turkey
facility: Bayburt University
Study officials:
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