NCT05773599

Midwifery Students and Laughter Yoga

The Evaluation of the Effect of Laughter Yoga on Sleep Quality and Life Satisfaction in Midwifery Students

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 77 (actual)
• Sponsor: Ataturk University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

No study was found as a result of the literature review. It is thought that laughter yoga will affect the life satisfaction and sleep quality of individuals due to reasons such as increasing oxygen saturation in the blood, strengthening mental functions, providing mental well-being and reducing stress. stress and mental fatigue are thought to affect life satisfaction and sleep quality, so it was planned to evaluate the effect of laughter yoga on life satisfaction and sleep quality.

Detailed description

With laughter, oxygen saturation in the brain and body increases. Laughter yoga basically includes breathing, meditation and different stretching movements. Benefits of laughter yoga; relaxes the muscles, reduces the level of stress hormones, ensures effective breathing, increases pain tolerance, strengthens mental functions, stimulates the circulatory and immune system, reduces anxiety and depression symptoms, improves quality of life and creates psychosocial well-being. Life satisfaction is the result obtained by comparing the expectations of the individual with what he has. Life satisfaction is affected by many factors such as daily stress, work life, social relations, and mental state. Life satisfaction is not related to certain areas, but to be happy in all areas of life. Sleep is of great importance in fulfilling daily functions and in maintaining mental and physical health. sleep quality; It is the quantitative evaluation of sleep such as the time to fall asleep, the total time spent in sleep, the number of awakenings, and the duration of awakening.

Conditions

• Laughter Yoga
• Midwifery
• Life Satisfaction

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	laughter yoga	A pre-test will be applied to evaluate sleep quality and life satisfaction. Laughter yoga will be applied one day apart to the experimental group with a low sleep quality score. After dasa, sleep quality and life satisfaction will be evaluated again with

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-01-09
• Primary completion: 2023-01-13
• Completion: 2023-01-27
• First posted: 2023-03-17
• Last updated: 2023-12-29

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)