Laughter Yoga, Stress Level and Burnout Level

NCT ID: NCT06519513

Last Updated: 2025-01-10

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: RECRUITING
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 80 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2024-09-25
• Study Completion Date: 2025-07-30

Brief Summary

The positive interaction between personal and business life results in the health of the healthcare personnel and the success of the institution. Burnout, which occurs as a result of a crisis in an individual's working life, manifests itself as fatigue, lack of energy, feeling inadequate in the professional role and lack of confidence.

Laughter, which helps people to endure stressful situations or processes, improves a person's problem-solving ability by reducing depression and increasing insight. For this reason, laughter reduces a person's exposure to negative environmental cues and helps them with self-control. Laughter, a positive emotion, appears to be a useful and healthy way to cope with stress. The aim of the research to be conducted is to evaluate the effect of laughter yoga on the stress and burnout levels of midwives.

Detailed Description

The positive interaction between personal and business life results in the health of the healthcare personnel and the success of the institution.

People who are satisfied with their working environment work more efficiently. High job satisfaction levels of midwives who ensure that newborns, pregnant women and postpartum women, as well as newborns, pregnant women and postpartum mothers, receive quality care will ensure that the service they provide will be of higher quality.

Burnout, which occurs as a result of a crisis in an individual's working life, manifests itself as fatigue, lack of energy, feeling inadequate in the professional role and lack of confidence. This situation, which occurs in the healthcare worker, will negatively affect the quality of patient care as it will cause a regression in the healthcare worker's decision-making process and an increase in medical errors. Laughter, which helps people to endure stressful situations or processes, improves a person's problem-solving ability by reducing depression and increasing insight. For this reason, laughter reduces a person's exposure to negative environmental cues and helps them with self-control. Laughter, a positive emotion, appears to be a useful and healthy way to cope with stress. People gain a positive mood through laughter, and a negative mood, thought or personality can also be changed in a positive way. Laughter therapy, which is used to increase psychosocial behaviors, positively affects the general quality of life.

The aim of the research to be conducted is to evaluate the effect of laughter yoga on the stress and burnout levels of midwives.

Conditions

Burnout, Psychological; Stress; Laughter

Study Design

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

Study Groups

Laughter yoga group

Laughter yoga will be performed in 8 sessions, 2 days a week for 4 weeks. The duration of each session will be 40 minutes. Laughter yoga sessions will be held on a day suitable for all participants and with the participation of at least 8 people. The session will start with warm-up exercises and continue with laughter exercises. People in the group will do these exercises with the guidance of the researcher.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Laughter yoga

Intervention Type: OTHER

Part 1: Deep Breathing Exercises: Raise the arms up towards the sky and take a deep breath as possible and hold the breath for 4-5 seconds. This application is repeated several times. This section takes approximately 5-10 minutes.

Part 2: Warm-up exercises: Hands are kept parallel to each other and clapped. The tips of the fingers and palms touch each other, the acupuncture points on both hands are stimulated and the individual's energy level increases.

Section 3: Childish Games: In this section there are childish games. These games are visualized in the mind and the participants are asked to raise their arms upwards in the shape of the letter "Y".This section takes approximately 10 minutes.

Section 4: Laughter Exercises: Participants are given verbal guidance such as "Put your hand on your heart, feel your heartbeat, let's exhale with a smile, let's make a wish or pray" and the laughter exercise is terminated. This section takes approximately 15 minutes.

Control group

Participants in this group will consist of people who do not routinely do any practice on their own to reduce stress and burnout levels. The researcher will ask the participants via phone 4 times a week for 1 month whether they have taken any action to reduce their stress and burnout symptoms. Participants who use any of the pharmacological or non-pharmacological practices to reduce stress and burnout symptoms will be excluded from the study.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Laughter yoga

Part 1: Deep Breathing Exercises: Raise the arms up towards the sky and take a deep breath as possible and hold the breath for 4-5 seconds. This application is repeated several times. This section takes approximately 5-10 minutes.

Part 2: Warm-up exercises: Hands are kept parallel to each other and clapped. The tips of the fingers and palms touch each other, the acupuncture points on both hands are stimulated and the individual's energy level increases.

Section 3: Childish Games: In this section there are childish games. These games are visualized in the mind and the participants are asked to raise their arms upwards in the shape of the letter "Y".This section takes approximately 10 minutes.

Section 4: Laughter Exercises: Participants are given verbal guidance such as "Put your hand on your heart, feel your heartbeat, let's exhale with a smile, let's make a wish or pray" and the laughter exercise is terminated. This section takes approximately 15 minutes.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Volunteering to participate in research
• Answering survey and scale forms fully
• Social media accounts, presence in WhatsApp groups
• Ability to read and understand Turkish
• 5 years or more of working life in the profession
• Not having any health problems that would prevent communication
• Working in a maternity ward or gynecology ward
• Scoring 14 or above on the perceived stress scale

Exclusion Criteria

• Not volunteering to participate in the research
• Answering survey and scale forms incompletely
• Not understanding Turkish
• Less than 5 years of working life in the profession
• Having any health problem that prevents communication
• Working outside the maternity ward or gynecology ward

• Eligible Sex: FEMALE
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Kırklareli University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Ayca Solt Kirca

Asssociate professor

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

AYCA SOLT KIRCA, Phd

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

Kırklareli University

Locations

Kırklareli University

Kırklareli, , Turkey (Türkiye)

Site Status: RECRUITING

Countries

Turkey (Türkiye)

Central Contacts

meltem yavuz, midwife

Role: CONTACT

meltemy22@outlook.com

0 541 953 52 99

Facility Contacts

AYCA SOLT KIRCA, Phd

Role: primary

aycasolt@hotmail.com

05392684185

Other Identifiers

KırklareliAS-11

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id