The Effect of Laughter Yoga on Tex Anxiety and Educational Stress

The Effect of Laughter Yoga on Tex Anxiety and Educational Stress in 8th-Grade Students

The primary purpose of this study is to examine the effects of laughter therapy on tex anxiety and educational stress in 8th-grade students.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Anxiety; Laughter Therapy; Stress, Exam
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: laughter yoga

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 64
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Turkey
  • Ankara, Turkey
    • Bilge KALANLAR

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 13 years to 14 years (CHILD)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

The inclusion criteria of the study were determined as being an 8th-grade student, speaking and understanding Turkish, and being able to perform daily life activities.

The exclusion criteria of the study were to have undergone a surgical operation in the last three months, and to have uncontrollable blood pressure, diabetes and asthma.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: OTHER
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Interventional Model: PARALLEL
• Masking: DOUBLE

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
EXPERIMENTAL: laughter yoga; Laughter yoga was performed face-to-face with the intervention group for 35-40 minutes twice a week and in 6 sessions in total.	Behavioral: laughter yoga; laughter yoga
NO_INTERVENTION: Control group; No intervention was performed for the control group

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Westside Test Anxiety Scale	The Westside Test Anxiety Inventory is a ten-item scale in a single dimension that aims to measure test anxiety. The scale was developed to be used in examining the effect of a program to reduce test anxiety.	up to 6 weeks

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Educational stress	It is a self-reported 5-point Likert-type measurement tool consisting of 16 items. The educational stress scale consists of four sub-dimensions: work pressure, course load, success anxiety, and expectation versus hopelessness. In addition to the sub-dimensions in the scale, the total score for the overall scale is calculated.	up to 6 weeks

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Hacettepe University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (ACTUAL): April 3, 2022
• Primary Completion (ACTUAL): June 9, 2022
• Study Completion (ACTUAL): June 9, 2022

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: January 29, 2023
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 29, 2023
• First Posted (ACTUAL): February 8, 2023

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (ACTUAL): February 8, 2023
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 29, 2023
• Last Verified: January 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Mental Disorders; Anxiety Disorders
• Other Study ID Numbers: E2273

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No