Clinical trial NCT05193955: The Effect of Laughter Yoga Practiced Before Simulation Training
Official title: The Effect of Laughter Yoga Practiced Before Simulation Training on State Anxiety, Student Satisfaction and Perceived Stress Level of Undergraduate Nursing Students
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Laughter
State Anxiety
Stress
Self Confidence
Satisfaction, Personal
Lead sponsor: Hacettepe University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2022-01-18
Enrollment: 72
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: Simulation education has become one of the innovative educational approaches that are widely used in providing nursing students with knowledge, skills, and attitudes towards vocational courses. Simulation education provides students with the opportunity to combine their knowledge and skills and provide nursing care in a high-reality environment. However, the fact that simulation training is a method that requires the student to recognize a clinical event, make a clinical decision, and intervene with the patient in line with this decision may cause students to experience anxiety and affect their learning. Although there are limited studies conducted on nursing students, it is stated that new approaches such as laughter yoga are effective in reducing anxiety and stress levels. In this direction, this research; In this study, it was planned to investigate the effectiveness of laughter yoga in terms of reducing the anxiety experienced by nursing students during simulation training and increasing their learning satisfaction. The universe of the research will be the second-year students of Hacettepe University Faculty of Nursing. As a result of the power analysis, it is aimed to reach 54 people. The study was planned in a randomized controlled design. Research data will be collected through Personal Information Form, State Anxiety Scale, Student Satisfaction and Self-Confidence in Learning Scale, Perceived Stress Scale for Nursing Students, and Students' Vital Findings Evaluation Form. With this study, it is predicted that laughter yoga to be applied to nursing students before simulation training will have a positive effect on state anxiety, student satisfaction, and perceived stress level.

Detailed description: The study will be carried out in a randomized controlled design with the aim of determining the effect of laughter yoga applied before the simulation training on the state anxiety, student satisfaction, and perceived stress level of nursing students. After the power analysis to calculate the sample size of the study, a total of 36 students will be included in each group with 90% power and 5% margin of error for multiple variance analysis in repeated measurements in a 2x2 factorial pattern between groups. In the research, students who have applied laughter yoga and simulation application together will form the intervention group, and students who only participated in the simulation application will form the control group.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* 18 years and over,
* Students who voluntarily agree to participate in the research will be included in the research.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Taking any medication that affects the heart rate,
* Having any psychiatric disease such as anxiety disorder,
* Students who do not accept to participate in the research will not be included in the research.

Primary outcomes:
measure: State Anxiety Scale
timeFrame: It will be applied to the students just before simulation and/or laughter yoga and after completing the training on the same day (each session is 60 minutes). Change from baseline State Anxiety scores at the end of 60 minutes.
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Student Satisfaction and Self-Confidence in Learning Scale
timeFrame: It will be applied immediately after completing the simulation training and/or laughter yoga on the same day (at the end of 60 minutes). Change from baseline Student Satisfaction and Self-Confidence in Learning scores at the end of 60 minutes.
measure: Perceived Stress Scale for Nursing Students
timeFrame: It will be applied to the students just before simulation and/or laughter yoga and after completing the training on the same day (each session is 60 minutes). Change from baseline Perceived Stress scores at the end of 60 minutes.
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Ankara
country: Turkey
facility: Hacettepe University
Study officials:
affiliation: Hacettepe University Faculty of Nursing
name: Ayşe ARIKAN DÖNMEZ, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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