NCT02824120

Effects of Laugh Therapy Associated to Cardiopulmonary Rehab

Effects of Laugh Therapy Associated to Cardiopulmonary and Metabolic Rehabilitation in Ischemic Heart Disease: Randomized Clinical Trial

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 36 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 40 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Laugh is more than visual and vocal behave, is always followed by a series of physiological changes, including contractions of musculoskeletal system, increase of cardiac frequency by catecholamine release and hyperventilation that promoves the increase of maximum breathing and oxygen saturation. Laugh therapy may be an alternative therapy, simple, and improve the quality of life of individuals can influence physiological and biochemical parameters of the human body.

Detailed description

Methods: Randomized clinical trial with patients from outpatient ischemic heart disease of the Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre , patients of both sexes in all regular monitoring. All patients will perform 30 minutes of stretching before film sessions. The exercises will be mild to moderate (modified Borg scale between 3 and 6).

Conditions

• Ischemic Heart Disease

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Comedy	patients will watch comedy film
OTHER	Documentary	patients will watch a documentary film

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-06-01
• Primary completion: 2019-03-01
• Completion: 2019-03-01
• First posted: 2016-07-06
• Last updated: 2018-08-21

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil