The Effect of Laughter Therapy On The Food Craving

NCT05796869 | Unknown

• 1 other identifier: sınopUmeryem-1
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 90
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) is characterized by physical, emotional, and behavioral symptoms in the luteal phase that significantly disrupt women's daily lives, including work and personal activities, and resolve spontaneously within a few days of the onset of menstruation. The premenstrual syndrome causes emotional eating, excessive consumption of certain foods, and increased appetite. These unhealthy eating patterns in eating behavior affect health negatively. Women with PMS have an increased appetite and food cravings. It has been stated that the increase in appetite and food cravings are reduced by laughter therapy. Thus, the laughter therapy method, which has no side effects in PMS and negative eating behaviors, can be used and recommended or applied by health professionals.

Conditions

PMS; LAUGHTER; Food Habits

Keywords

PMS; Laughter Therapy; Young women; Food Craving

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Premenstrual Syndrom Scale

  It is a scale developed by Gençdoğan in 2006, measuring the severity of premenstrual symptoms, with a five-point Likert type, containing 44 items and consisting of nine subscales: Depressive Affectiveness, Anxiety, Fatigue, Nervousness, Depressive Thoughts, Pain, Appetite Changes, Sleep Changes and Bloating. When scoring on the scale, "Always" is scored as 5 points, "Often" as 4 points, "Sometimes" as 3 points, "Very little" as 2 points and "Never" as 1 point, and it is evaluated over the total score. The application of the scale is done by retrospectively evaluating the person's "being in the week before menstrual bleeding" situation. The lowest score from the scale is 44 and the highest score is 220. The higher the score, the more severe PMS symptoms are considered. If the person exceeds 50% (110) of the total scale score (220) on the PMS scale, PMS is considered to be present. In the reliability study of the scale, Cronbach's Alpha value was found to be 0.75.

  One day

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Food Craving:

  One day

Study Arms (2)

Control Group

NO INTERVENTION

At the beginning of the study, data collection tools Personal Information Form, Premenstrual Syndrome Scale and Food Craving Scale will be applied to the control group. No intervention will be made in the control group. Measurement tools will be applied for the post-test.

Experimental Group

EXPERIMENTAL

All young women with a Premenstrual Syndrome Scale total score of 110 and above will be included in the study. Since all women who have a Premenstrual Syndrome Diagnostic Scale of 110 and above, volunteer to participate in the study and meet the inclusion criteria will be included in the study, no additional sample selection will be made. The application and control group will be determined on random.org among the group that constitutes the sample of the study. Laughter therapy sessions will be administered face to face to the application group once a week for 2 months by a researcher with a laughter therapy certificate. At the end of two months, the Personal Information Form, Premenstrual Syndrome Scale, and the Food Craving Scale will be administered again to both the application group and the control group.

Behavioral: Assigned Interventions

Interventions

Assigned Interventions BEHAVIORAL

The laughter therapy session will be administered to the application group face to face for 25-30 minutes once a week for 2 months by a researcher with a laughter therapy certificate. In the laughter therapy session, introducing the practitioner and introducing the therapy, breathing exercises for a healthy life, maintaining the rhythm with music, turning laughter that starts like a child's play into reality and meditation practices will be carried out.

Experimental Group

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 35 Years
• Gender Eligibility Details: Having a PMS score of 43 and above
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• Being a nursing student,
• Being a female student,
• Volunteering to participate in the study.
• Having a PMS score of 43 and above

You may not qualify if:

• Not to study as a nursing student
• Being a male student
• Not to volunteer to participate in the study
• Participants who have a PMS score of 42 and below

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Sinop University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Sinop University

Sinop, 5700, Turkey (Türkiye)

RECRUITING

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Laughter; Feeding Behavior

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Nonverbal Communication; Communication; Behavior; Behavior, Animal

Study Officials

• Meryem Erdoğan, PhD

  Sinop University

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Central Study Contacts

Meryem Erdoğan, PhD

CONTACT

+905364959633; meryemerdogan84@gmail.com

Adeviye Aydın, PhD

CONTACT

+905413645524; adeviye86@gmail.com

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NON RANDOMIZED
• Masking: DOUBLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT, INVESTIGATOR
• Purpose: SUPPORTIVE CARE
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: March 21, 2023
• First Posted: April 4, 2023
• Study Start: November 20, 2023
• Primary Completion: January 20, 2024
• Study Completion: January 30, 2024
• Last Updated: December 26, 2023

Record last verified: 2023-12

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

TU (1)