Clinical trial NCT06175936: Effect of Laughter Yoga on Nursing Students
Official title: The Effect of Laughter Yoga on Nursing Students' Well-Being, Perceived Stress and Academic Self-Efficacy: a Randomised Controlled Study
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Laughter
Stress
Well-Being, Psychological
Keywords: academic self efficacy
laughter yoga
undergraudate nursing education
well-being
stress
Lead sponsor: Istanbul University - Cerrahpasa
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2023-12-19
Enrollment: 80
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 40
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief 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.

Detailed 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.

Eligibility criteria: 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

Primary outcomes:
measure: Well being
timeFrame: 2 weeks post intervention
measure: Academic self-efficcay
timeFrame: 2 weeks post intervention
measure: Stress
timeFrame: 2 weeks post intervention
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Well being
timeFrame: 2 weeks post intervention
measure: Academic self-efficacy
timeFrame: 2 weeks post intervention
measure: Stress
timeFrame: 2 weeks post intervention
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Istanbul
country: Turkey
facility: Olga İncesu
state: Şişli
Study officials:
affiliation: Dr
name: Merve Altıner Yaş, Dr
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
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