Laughie Prescription on the Well-being, Happiness, and Posttraumatic Stress Level of Nursing Students Affected by the Earthquake

NCT ID: NCT07157176

Last Updated: 2025-09-11

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 50 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2025-04-01
• Study Completion Date: 2025-08-01

Brief Summary

This study aimed to evaluate the effect of the Laughie Prescription on Well-being, Happiness, and Postraumatic stress levels of nursing students affected by the earthquake in Türkiye. The study hypothesises that the Laughie Prescription would have a positive effect on well-being, happiness, and lowering post-traumatic stress level scores among nursing students affected by the earthquake in Türkiye. The CONSORT-SPI 18 Checklist for the reporting of randomised trials of social and psychological interventions was adhered to in the development of this protocol.

Detailed Description

Purpose: The aim of the research is to examine the effects of the Laughie Prescription: if it would have a positive effect on well-being, happiness, and post-traumatic stress level scores among nursing students affected by the earthquake in Türkiye.

Methods: The study will conduct with 60 (30 in the intervention group, and 30 in the control group) nursing students. The study population in the intervention group will apply the intervention three times a day for one week. No intervention will be offered to the control group.

Recruitment: Participants will be recruited from the School of Nursing at XX University, in Hatay Turkiye - recruitment will be voluntary Randomization: Participants will be randomly assigned to either the control or the intervention group through a block randomisation prompt, where the block size is 5, within the Qualtrics link at the time participants sign up to the study. Authors involved in the analysis of the data will be blinded to participants' group allocation.

Intervention: The intervention will consist of 3-minutes of laughter (joyful and natural laughter is recommended) per day. Each day participants will laugh for one minute in a group (virtual and/or actual) guided by a professional laughter practitioner who is not going to be involved in the analysis of the data. That laughter will be recorded. The recording (the "Laughie") will then be prescribed for participants to laugh with (with others - family, friends, colleagues, or alone) twice a day. This will result in 3 minutes of laughter per day (the first in a group, the second two prompted by the Laughie).

Data will be collected with a socio- demographic questionnaire, and Well-being, Happiness, and Postraumatic Stress Level Scales.

Participants randomly allocated to the control group will be instructed to complete the questionnaires at baseline and follow-up but will not take part in any intervention.

Conditions

Well Being; Happiness; Post Traumatic Stress Disorders

Study Design

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

Study Groups

Experimental group

Daily 3-Minute Laughter Practice (Laughie Prescription)"

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Daily 3-Minute Laughter Practice (Laughie Prescription)

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

The intervention will consist of 3-minutes of laughter (joyful and natural laughter is recommended) per day. Each day participants will laugh for one minute in a group (virtual and/or actual) guided by a professional laughter practitioner who is not going to be involved in the analysis of the data. That laughter will be recorded. The recording (the "Laughie") will then be prescribed for participants to laugh with (with others - family, friends, colleagues, or alone) twice a day. This will result in 3 minutes of laughter per day (the first in a group, the second two prompted by the Laughie)

No Intervention

Control group The control group will not take part in the Laughie Prescription

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Daily 3-Minute Laughter Practice (Laughie Prescription)

The intervention will consist of 3-minutes of laughter (joyful and natural laughter is recommended) per day. Each day participants will laugh for one minute in a group (virtual and/or actual) guided by a professional laughter practitioner who is not going to be involved in the analysis of the data. That laughter will be recorded. The recording (the "Laughie") will then be prescribed for participants to laugh with (with others - family, friends, colleagues, or alone) twice a day. This will result in 3 minutes of laughter per day (the first in a group, the second two prompted by the Laughie)

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Nursing students who have lived through the earthquake

Exclusion Criteria

• Chronic respiration conditions; Heart conditions

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 35 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

University of Derby

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Mustafa Kemal University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Hacettepe University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Nilgun Kuru Alici

Associate Professor

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

Hacettepe University

Ankara, , Turkey (Türkiye)

Countries

Turkey (Türkiye)

Other Identifiers

Hacettepe University

Identifier Type: REGISTRY

Identifier Source: secondary_id

Hacettepe University

Identifier Type: OTHER

Identifier Source: secondary_id

D69072

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id