NCT07123571

A Five-Day Contagious Laughter Intervention for Adult Well-being

A Pilot Randomized Trial: Effectiveness of a Five-day Online Audio-visual Contagious Laughter Intervention to Enhance Well-being in Adults

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 100 (actual)
• Sponsor: Zayed University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The goal of this pilot trial is to determine the effectiveness of a five day contagious laughter intervention on adult well-being. The main questions it aims to answer are: Does exposure to a five-day online contagious laughter intervention improve subjective well-being in adults compared to waitlist controls? Does exposure to a five-day online contagious laughter intervention improve subjective mood status in adults compared to waitlist controls? Participants in the intervention group will: View a one-minute contagious laughter video each day for five days Complete the WHO5 Wellbeing index pre and post intervention Rate their mood status before and after each laughter video on each day of the intervention After viewing each video, rate how much they laughter along with the video on each day of the intervention Participants in the waitlist control group will: Complete the WHO5 wellbeing index at baseline and again after six days

Conditions

• Well-being

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Contagious Laughter	Contagious laughter videos

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-09-15
• Primary completion: 2023-05-14
• Completion: 2023-09-30
• First posted: 2025-08-14
• Last updated: 2025-08-14

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United Arab Emirates