Midwifery Students and Laughter Yoga

December 28, 2023 updated by: Safiye AĞAPINAR ŞAHİN, Ataturk University

The Evaluation of the Effect of Laughter Yoga on Sleep Quality and Life Satisfaction in Midwifery Students

No study was found as a result of the literature review. It is thought that laughter yoga will affect the life satisfaction and sleep quality of individuals due to reasons such as increasing oxygen saturation in the blood, strengthening mental functions, providing mental well-being and reducing stress. stress and mental fatigue are thought to affect life satisfaction and sleep quality, so it was planned to evaluate the effect of laughter yoga on life satisfaction and sleep quality.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

With laughter, oxygen saturation in the brain and body increases. Laughter yoga basically includes breathing, meditation and different stretching movements. Benefits of laughter yoga; relaxes the muscles, reduces the level of stress hormones, ensures effective breathing, increases pain tolerance, strengthens mental functions, stimulates the circulatory and immune system, reduces anxiety and depression symptoms, improves quality of life and creates psychosocial well-being. Life satisfaction is the result obtained by comparing the expectations of the individual with what he has. Life satisfaction is affected by many factors such as daily stress, work life, social relations, and mental state. Life satisfaction is not related to certain areas, but to be happy in all areas of life.

Sleep is of great importance in fulfilling daily functions and in maintaining mental and physical health. sleep quality; It is the quantitative evaluation of sleep such as the time to fall asleep, the total time spent in sleep, the number of awakenings, and the duration of awakening.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

77

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • Turkey
    • Yakuti̇ye/erzurum
      • Erzurum, Yakuti̇ye/erzurum, Turkey, 25030
        • Atatürk University Faculty of Health Sciences Department

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

  • Child
  • Adult
  • Older Adult

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Students who agreed to participate in the study

Exclusion Criteria:

  • not be a midwifery student

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: laughter yoga
A pre-test will be applied to evaluate sleep quality and life satisfaction. 4 sessions of laughter yoga will be applied to the experimental group with a low sleep quality score, one day apart. Afterwards, sleep quality and life satisfaction will be evaluated with the posttest.
Other: laughter yoga
A pre-test will be applied to evaluate sleep quality and life satisfaction. Laughter yoga will be applied one day apart to the experimental group with a low sleep quality score. After dasa, sleep quality and life satisfaction will be evaluated again with
No Intervention: kontrol
A pre-test will be applied to evaluate sleep quality and life satisfaction. The control group with a low sleep quality score will not receive any intervention. In parallel with the experimental group, sleep quality and life satisfaction will be evaluated again with the posttest.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
The effect of laughter yoga on life satisfaction
Time Frame: one day
The life satisfaction of students will be measured with the life satisfaction scale. The "Satisfaction with Life Scale", whose validity and reliability study was conducted in Turkish by Dağlı and Baysal in 2016, has a total of five items and a 5-point Likert type, and the internal consistency coefficient of the scale has been reported to be 0.92. A high score from the scale, which has a single factor structure, indicates that the individual's life satisfaction is high.
one day
The effect of laughter yoga on sleep quality
Time Frame: 28 day
The Cronbach's alpha internal consistency coefficient of the original scale was calculated as 0.83 and the Turkish version was 0.80. PUKI consists of 24 questions in total. The last 5 questions on the scale must be answered by the spouse or roommate. These 5 questions are used for clinical information only and are not included in the scoring. Therefore, 18 items are included in the scoring in PUKI. The questions consist of seven sub-components: subjective sleep quality, sleep latency, sleep duration, habitual sleep efficiency, sleep disturbance, use of sleep medication, and daytime dysfunction. Each question is evaluated by giving points between 0-3. The sum of the scores of these seven sub-components constitutes the total score of PUKI. The total PUKI score has a value between 0-21. Sleep quality of those with a total score of 5 and less than 5 was "good"; Sleep quality of those with a score greater than 5 is considered "poor".
28 day

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Ataturk University

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Safiye Ağapınar Şahin, Ass.Dr., Atatürk University Faculty of Health Sciences Department of Midwifery Yakutiye/Erzurum
  • Study Director: Sibel Öztürk, Ass. Dr., Atatürk University Faculty of Health Sciences Department of Midwifery Yakutiye/Erzurum
  • Study Director: Nazlı Akar, assistant, Research assistant

Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

January 9, 2023

Primary Completion (Actual)

January 13, 2023

Study Completion (Actual)

January 27, 2023

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

January 23, 2023

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

March 16, 2023

First Posted (Actual)

March 17, 2023

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

December 29, 2023

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

December 28, 2023

Last Verified

December 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Other Study ID Numbers

  • Ataturk University SSAHIN0001

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

NO

IPD Plan Description

We do not share Individual Participant data with other researchers.

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

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