NCT05634343

Laughter Therapy and Mindfulness Practices

Completed NA Last updated 21 August 2024

What this trial tests

NA trial testing experimental group 1 in Nurse's Role in 117 participants. Completed in 20 October 2022.

Timeline

6 September 2021

Primary endpoint
20 April 2022

20 October 2022

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Nagihan Koroglu Kaba
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	double
Primary purpose	supportive care
Enrollment	117
Start date	6 September 2021
Primary completion	20 April 2022
Estimated completion	20 October 2022
Sites	1 location across Turkey (Türkiye)

Drugs / interventions tested

• experimental group 1
• experimantal group 2

Conditions studied

• Nurse's Role — all drugs for Nurse's Role →

Sponsor

Nagihan Koroglu Kaba

Who can join

Eligibility, any sex, with Nurse's Role. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Nurses working by shifts under intense stress and pressure and using complicated technological products- undergo fatigue and attention deficit with the effect of the many negative factors caused by work setting. This threatens patient and staff safety as well as leads to communicational problems, work absenteeism, lowered motivation, inability to control stress and poor work performance and productivity among nurses as well. In this sense; laughter therapy and mindfulness practices may help nurses cope with these problems because some experimental studies proved that both methods showed many benefits in different samples. However; no studies in which these two methods were compared among nurses were encountered. Therefore; the study -being in experimental design and randomized controlled trial- will be undertaken with a total of 111 nurses employed at a university hospital -37 nurses allocated to the experimental 1 group, 37 nurses to the experimental 2 group and 37 nurses to the control group-. First; Computer-Based Sustained Attention Test, the Stroop Test Çapa Version, The Chalder Fatigue Scale (CFQ) and Individual Work Performance Questionnaire will be administered to the nurses of the experimental and control groups as a pre-test. Then; nurses of the experimental 1 group will join sessions of laughter therapy (30-45 minutes twice a week for 8 weeks) and nurses of the experimental 2 group will join sessions of mindfulness practices (45-60 minutes twice a week for 8 weeks) for two months. One month later when the sessions are started, a mid test will be administered and soon after the sessions are completed a post test will be administered to the nurses via Computer-Based Sustained Attention Test, the Stroop Test Çapa Version, The Chalder Fatigue Scale (CFQ) and Individual Work Performance Questionnaire. One month later after the post test; a follow-up will be performed using the same tools. As a result; the effects of both applications on fatigue, attention and performance will be investigated.

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial. Completed trials usually publish results within 12-18 months.