Laughter Yoga, Stress Level and Burnout Level

NCT06519513 | Recruiting

• 1 other identifier: KırklareliAS-11
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 80
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The positive interaction between personal and business life results in the health of the healthcare personnel and the success of the institution. Burnout, which occurs as a result of a crisis in an individual's working life, manifests itself as fatigue, lack of energy, feeling inadequate in the professional role and lack of confidence. Laughter, which helps people to endure stressful situations or processes, improves a person's problem-solving ability by reducing depression and increasing insight. For this reason, laughter reduces a person's exposure to negative environmental cues and helps them with self-control. Laughter, a positive emotion, appears to be a useful and healthy way to cope with stress. The aim of the research to be conducted is to evaluate the effect of laughter yoga on the stress and burnout levels of midwives.

Conditions

Burnout, Psychological; Stress; Laughter

Keywords

stress; burnout; laughter yoga

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (2)

• Burnout Scale

  Developed by Pines and Aronson (1988) to be used on non-professional groups as well as all professional groups, the TOS consists of twenty-one items prepared as self-report on a seven-point scale to evaluate the physical, emotional and mental exhaustion level of individuals.

  between 2 to 4 weeks

• Perceived Stress Scale-10

  It measures the extent to which situations in a person's life are evaluated as stressful. Scores of 0-13 are considered low stress. Scores between 14 and 26 are considered moderate stress. Scores between 27 and 40 are considered high perceived stress.

  between 2 to 4 weeks

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• General Health Survey-28

  between 2 to 4 weeks

Study Arms (2)

Laughter yoga group

EXPERIMENTAL

Laughter yoga will be performed in 8 sessions, 2 days a week for 4 weeks. The duration of each session will be 40 minutes. Laughter yoga sessions will be held on a day suitable for all participants and with the participation of at least 8 people. The session will start with warm-up exercises and continue with laughter exercises. People in the group will do these exercises with the guidance of the researcher.

Other: Laughter yoga

Control group

NO INTERVENTION

Participants in this group will consist of people who do not routinely do any practice on their own to reduce stress and burnout levels. The researcher will ask the participants via phone 4 times a week for 1 month whether they have taken any action to reduce their stress and burnout symptoms. Participants who use any of the pharmacological or non-pharmacological practices to reduce stress and burnout symptoms will be excluded from the study.

Interventions

Laughter yoga OTHER

Part 1: Deep Breathing Exercises: Raise the arms up towards the sky and take a deep breath as possible and hold the breath for 4-5 seconds. This application is repeated several times. This section takes approximately 5-10 minutes. Part 2: Warm-up exercises: Hands are kept parallel to each other and clapped. The tips of the fingers and palms touch each other, the acupuncture points on both hands are stimulated and the individual's energy level increases. Section 3: Childish Games: In this section there are childish games. These games are visualized in the mind and the participants are asked to raise their arms upwards in the shape of the letter "Y".This section takes approximately 10 minutes. Section 4: Laughter Exercises: Participants are given verbal guidance such as "Put your hand on your heart, feel your heartbeat, let's exhale with a smile, let's make a wish or pray" and the laughter exercise is terminated. This section takes approximately 15 minutes.

Laughter yoga group

Eligibility Criteria

• Gender Eligibility Details: female
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Volunteering to participate in research
• Answering survey and scale forms fully
• Social media accounts, presence in WhatsApp groups
• Ability to read and understand Turkish
• years or more of working life in the profession
• Not having any health problems that would prevent communication
• Working in a maternity ward or gynecology ward
• Scoring 14 or above on the perceived stress scale

You may not qualify if:

• Not volunteering to participate in the research
• Answering survey and scale forms incompletely
• Not understanding Turkish
• Less than 5 years of working life in the profession
• Having any health problem that prevents communication
• Working outside the maternity ward or gynecology ward

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Kırklareli University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Kırklareli University

Kırklareli, Turkey (Türkiye)

RECRUITING

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Burnout, Psychological; Laughter

Interventions

Laughter Therapy

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Stress, Psychological; Behavioral Symptoms; Behavior; Nonverbal Communication; Communication

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Mind-Body Therapies; Complementary Therapies; Therapeutics

Study Officials

• AYCA SOLT KIRCA, Phd

  Kırklareli University

  STUDY CHAIR

Central Study Contacts

meltem yavuz, midwife

CONTACT

0 541 953 52 99; meltemy22@outlook.com

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: Asssociate professor

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: July 20, 2024
• First Posted: July 25, 2024
• Study Start: September 25, 2024
• Primary Completion: June 30, 2025
• Study Completion: July 30, 2025
• Last Updated: January 10, 2025

Record last verified: 2025-01

Locations

TU (1)