NCT02957110

Laughter Frequency and Fibromyalgia Symptoms

The Relationships Between Laughter Frequency, Pain Perception, and Affect in Fibromyalgia Patients

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 41 (actual)
• Sponsor: Walden University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether daily laughter frequency is associated with pain intensity and emotional state ratings in individuals who have fibromyalgia syndrome.

Detailed description

Participants will be asked to provide (or authorize the researcher to obtain) fibromyalgia diagnosis confirmation from a health care provider. Initially, participants will complete a demographics form and two screening assessments. Then for 14 days, they will be asked to rate their momentary mood and overall pain levels three times per day (shortly after waking up, around 3:00 p.m., and at about an hour before bedtime). At the same time, they will be asked to log each instance of laughter as it occurs, daily, for 14 days. They will carry the log with them throughout each day in order to document each instance of laughter.

Conditions

• Fibromyalgia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Laughter Frequency	Relationships between laughter frequency, momentary mood state, and pain will be observed.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-11-01
• Primary completion: 2017-10-01
• Completion: 2017-10-01
• First posted: 2016-11-07
• Last updated: 2018-05-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States