NCT07157176

Laughie Prescription on the Well-being, Happiness, and Posttraumatic Stress Level of Nursing Students Affected by the Earthquake

Laughie Prescription on the Well-being, Happiness, and Posttraumatic Stress Level of Nursing Students Affected by the Earthquake in Türkiye: A Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 50 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hacettepe University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 35 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study aimed to evaluate the effect of the Laughie Prescription on Well-being, Happiness, and Postraumatic stress levels of nursing students affected by the earthquake in Türkiye. The study hypothesises that the Laughie Prescription would have a positive effect on well-being, happiness, and lowering post-traumatic stress level scores among nursing students affected by the earthquake in Türkiye. The CONSORT-SPI 18 Checklist for the reporting of randomised trials of social and psychological interventions was adhered to in the development of this protocol.

Detailed description

Purpose: The aim of the research is to examine the effects of the Laughie Prescription: if it would have a positive effect on well-being, happiness, and post-traumatic stress level scores among nursing students affected by the earthquake in Türkiye. Methods: The study will conduct with 60 (30 in the intervention group, and 30 in the control group) nursing students. The study population in the intervention group will apply the intervention three times a day for one week. No intervention will be offered to the control group. Recruitment: Participants will be recruited from the School of Nursing at XX University, in Hatay Turkiye - recruitment will be voluntary Randomization: Participants will be randomly assigned to either the control or the intervention group through a block randomisation prompt, where the block size is 5, within the Qualtrics link at the time participants sign up to the study. Authors involved in the analysis of the data will be blinded to participants' group allocation. Intervention: The intervention will consist of 3-minutes of laughter (joyful and natural laughter is recommended) per day. Each day participants will laugh for one minute in a group (virtual and/or actual) guided by a professional laughter practitioner who is not going to be involved in the analysis of the data. That laughter will be recorded. The recording (the "Laughie") will then be prescribed for participants to laugh with (with others - family, friends, colleagues, or alone) twice a day. This will result in 3 minutes of laughter per day (the first in a group, the second two prompted by the Laughie). Data will be collected with a socio- demographic questionnaire, and Well-being, Happiness, and Postraumatic Stress Level Scales. Participants randomly allocated to the control group will be instructed to complete the questionnaires at baseline and follow-up but will not take part in any intervention.

Conditions

• Well Being
• Happiness
• Post Traumatic Stress Disorders

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Daily 3-Minute Laughter Practice (Laughie Prescription)	The intervention will consist of 3-minutes of laughter (joyful and natural laughter is recommended) per day. Each day participants will laugh for one minute in a group (virtual and/or actual) guided by a professional laughter practitioner who is not going to be involved in the analysis of the data. That laughter will be recorded. The recording (the "Laughie") will then be prescribed for participants to laugh with (with others - family, friends, colleagues, or alone) twice a day. This will result in 3 minutes of laughter per day (the first in a group, the second two prompted by the Laughie)

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-04-01
• Primary completion: 2025-05-30
• Completion: 2025-08-01
• First posted: 2025-09-05
• Last updated: 2025-09-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)