The Effect of Laughter Yoga on Mindfulness, Proffessional Resilience and Self-Care

NCT ID: NCT06216860

Last Updated: 2025-05-15

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 72 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2024-05-14
• Study Completion Date: 2025-05-14

Brief Summary

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of laughter yoga on mindfulness, professional resilience and self-care among nurses. The hypotheses of the study suggested that laughter yoga would have an effect on mindfulness, professional resilience and self-care scores among nurses.

Detailed Description

Laughter yoga is an independent nursing intervention that includes breathing and laughter exercises. Studies have proven that laughter yoga decreases stress hormones, increases hormones such as endorphins, decreases leukocytes and provides protection against infection, accelerates circulation, increases pain tolerance and quality of life, decreases blood pressure, stress, anxiety and tension, improves mental well-being and self-esteem, improves memory and creative thinking skills, and strengthens interpersonal communication. Many of these studies have been conducted in patients, healthy adults, the elderly, nursing and university students. There are a limited number of studies in which laughter yoga was applied as an intervention in a sample of nurses. In the studies, it was determined that laughter yoga decreased cortisol hormone, fatigue levels, perceived stress, burnout levels, increased life satisfaction, attention levels and individual work performance, psychological resilience and sleep quality in nurses.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of laughter yoga on mindfulness, professional resilience and self-care among nurses.

Method:

The study is planned as an experimental research with a randomized controlled pretest-posttest control group. This study is planned to be conducted in Düzce Atatürk State Hospital between February 2024 and December 2024.

The sample size for the study was calculated using the G*Power 3.1.9.7 program. There was no article that could be taken as a reference for the scales included in this study. Therefore, taking a medium effect level (d=0.5), 5% margin of error (α=0.05), 80% power (1β=0.80) and 1:2 intervention-control group ratio, the number of people who should be included in the study according to the one-way hypothesis was found as 38 participants for the intervention group and 76 participants for the control group. Assuming drop outs, the sample size will be determined as 40 participants for the experimental group and 80 participants for the control group.

The data will be collected through "Personal Information Form", "Five Dimensional Mindfulness Scale", "Skovholt Professional Resilience and Self-Care Inventory" and "Post Laughter Yoga Evaluation Form

Conditions

Laughter Yoga; Laughter Therapy; Mindfulness; Self-care

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: OTHER
• Blinding Strategy: DOUBLE

Study Groups

Interventional group / Laughter yoga

The data of the pre-intervention study will be recorded with "Personal Information Form", "Five Dimensional Mindfulness Scale" and "Skovholt Professional Resilience and Self-Care Inventory".

The application will be done for 8 weeks, 1 day a week. Post-intervention data will be collected with "Five Dimensional Mindfulness Scale" and "Skovholt Professional Resilience and Self-Care Inventory" and "Post Laughter Yoga Evaluation Form".

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Laughter Yoga

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

In Laughter Yoga Practice; each session will last approximately 30 - 45 minutes and will consist of four parts. These parts are: warm-up exercises, deep breathing exercises, childlike games and laughter exercises.

Control group

The control group did not take part in the laughter yoga program. As a pre-test, the data of the study will be recorded with "Personal Information Form", "Five Dimensional Mindfulness Scale" and "Skovholt Professional Resilience and Self-Care Inventory". As the post-test, 8 weeks after the pre-test, the data of the study will be collected with the "Five Dimensional Mindfulness Scale" and "Skovholt Professional Resilience and Self-Care Inventory".

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Laughter Yoga

In Laughter Yoga Practice; each session will last approximately 30 - 45 minutes and will consist of four parts. These parts are: warm-up exercises, deep breathing exercises, childlike games and laughter exercises.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Other Intervention Names

Interventional group

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Volunteering to participate in the study
• Working as a nurse at Düzce Atatürk State Hospital
• Not doing laughter yoga before

Exclusion Criteria

• Currently being in the process of any psychiatric treatment or psychotherapy

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Hacettepe University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Duzce University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Nuriye Yıldırım

Associate Professor

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

Duzce Üniversitesi

Düzce, Merkez, Turkey (Türkiye)

Countries

Turkey (Türkiye)

Other Identifiers

DuzceU-SBF-NYS-01

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id