The Effect of Group-Based Laughter Yoga on Midwifery Students

NCT05942131 | Unknown

• 1 other identifier: SBÜ-AYDINKARTAL-005
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 84
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This study was planned to determine the effect of laughter yoga on the secondary traumatic stress and depression levels experienced by midwifery students due to the use of social media after the earthquake. The universe of the research will be the third year students of Health Sciences University Hamidiye Health Sciences Faculty Midwifery Department (N:84). A total of 8 sessions of laughter yoga, 2 sessions per week, will be applied to midwifery students in the intervention group of the research. It will be determined as intervention (n:42) and control (n:42) groups. "Descriptive Information Form", "Secondary Traumatic Stress Scale for Social Media Users" and "Beck Depression Inventory" will be applied to both groups.

Conditions

Laughter Yoga

Keywords

secondary trauma; depression; midwifery student; earthquake

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (3)

• Introductory Information Form

  In this form, which was created by the researchers based on the literature, participants' age, high school they graduated from, secondary traumatic stress experience, etc. questions are included.

  1 hour before laughter yoga practice

• Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)

  The scale designed to determine the depressive levels of individuals consists of 21 items. The aim of the inventory is not to diagnose depression but to express the degree of depressive symptoms numerically. Higher scores indicate an increase in depressive symptoms. Each item receives a score between 0-3 and the scores that can be obtained from the inventory are between 0-63. The scores of 0-9 points indicate normal, 10-18 points indicate mild, 19-29 points indicate moderate, and 30-63 points indicate severe depressive symptoms.

  1 hour before laughter yoga practice

• Secondary Traumatic Stress Scale for Social Media Users

  The scale was developed to examine avoidance and arousal symptoms associated with indirect exposure to traumatic experiences through social media users. The scale consists of 17 items. The scale was reduced to a single-factor structure. There are no reverse coded items. The lowest score that can be obtained from the scale is 17 and the highest score is 85. As the total score obtained from the scale increases, individuals' secondary traumatic stress caused by social media increases.

  1 hour before laughter yoga practice

Secondary Outcomes (2)

• Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)

  4-6 weeks after application

• Secondary Traumatic Stress Scale for Social Media Users

  4-6 weeks after application

Study Arms (2)

Intervention Group (n:42)

EXPERIMENTAL

Laughter yoga will be practiced to students in the intervention group

Other: Group-based laughter yoga

Control Group (n:42)

NO INTERVENTION

No intervention will be applied to the control group midwives and "Secondary Traumatic Stress Scale for Social Media Users" and "Beck Depression Inventory" will be applied when they are included in the study and again after 4-6 weeks.

Interventions

Group-based laughter yoga OTHER

A total of 8 sessions of laughter yoga will be applied to the students in the intervention group, 2 sessions per week. Each session will last 45 minutes on average. Each session will consist of groups of 7 people. An information meeting about the sessions will be held with the midwifery students who volunteered to participate in the study and assigned to the intervention group before starting laughter yoga. Midwifery students will be administered "Secondary Traumatic Stress Scale for Social Media Users" and "Beck Depression Inventory" before and after 4-6 weeks.

Intervention Group (n:42)

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: female
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Being an active student in the 3rd year of Health Sciences University, Hamidiye Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Midwifery
• Volunteering to participate in research

You may not qualify if:

• Having a psychiatric diagnosis

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Saglik Bilimleri Universitesi: lead

Study Sites (1)

University of Health Sciences

Istanbul, Uskudar, Turkey (Türkiye)

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Compassion Fatigue; Depression

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Mental Fatigue; Fatigue; Signs and Symptoms; Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms; Behavioral Symptoms; Behavior; Occupational Stress; Stress, Psychological

Central Study Contacts

Yasemin Aydın Kartal Assoc. Prof. Dr.

CONTACT

+90 543 287 00 29; yasemin.aydin@sbu.edu.tr

Aleyna Bulut Research Assistant

CONTACT

+90 0536 562 61 84; aleyna.bulut@sbu.edu.tr

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Assoc. Prof. Dr.

Model Details: Single blind randomized controlled trial

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: June 24, 2023
• First Posted: July 12, 2023
• Study Start: September 1, 2023
• Primary Completion: March 1, 2024
• Study Completion: August 1, 2024
• Last Updated: July 12, 2023

Record last verified: 2023-07

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

TU (1)