The Effect Of Laughter Therapy On Self-Efficacy
Study Details
Study Description
Brief Summary
Brief Summary: Laughter is an innate, universal response we give to events in our lives. "Laughter Therapy" is a technique created by combining breathing techniques and laughter and takes its place in complementary medicine. It is a simulation performed by making eye contact with the members of the group, in which physical exercise and childlike games take place. Laughter sessions are about 30-40 minutes. continues and this simulation in a short time creates a real and contagious laugh. It has been determined by studies that laughter therapy physiologically increases breathing and relaxes muscles, strengthens mental function by decreasing the level of stress hormones, reduces burnout, depression and anxiety levels, positively affects quality of life, increases social interaction and provides psychological well-being.
Self-efficacy, on the other hand, is a state that expresses a person's belief that he or she is able to perform a certain task. More broadly, self-efficacy examines an individual's ability to perform a task rather than individual characteristics such as physical or psychological characteristics. Psychological well-being is as important as self-efficacy in the development of students. In addition, studies on mental health have generally focused on anxiety and depression. Most of these studies were related to well-being and contributed to the literature. Psychological well-being is defined as managing existential challenges in life.
Aim: This study was planned to determine the Effect of Laughter Therapy on Self-Efficacy and Psychological Well-Being in Nursing Students.
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Detailed Description
Method: This study will be carried out with first year students studying at Sinop University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Nursing. It is aimed to include all first-year nursing students in the study. The study will be carried out in the Spring semester of the 2022-2023 academic year. The sample of the study will be all young women studying at the Faculty of Health Sciences, meeting the inclusion criteria and agreeing to participate in the study.
Arm Title: Control Group At the beginning of the study, data collection tools Personal Information Form, Academic Self-Efficacy Scale and Psychological Well-Being Scale will be applied to the control group. No intervention will be made in the control group. Measurement tools will be applied for the post-test.
Arm Title: Experimental Group Personal Information Form, Academic Self-Efficacy Scale and Psychological Well-Being Scale will be applied to all first-year nursing students studying at Sinop University Health Sciences in the spring term of 2022-2023.
Study Design
Arms and Interventions
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| No Intervention: control group At the beginning of the study, data collection tools Personal Information Form, Academic Self-Efficacy Scale and Psychological Well-Being Scale will be applied to the control group. No intervention will be made in the control group. Measurement tools will be applied for the post-test. |
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| Experimental: experimental group Personal Information Form, Academic Self-Efficacy Scale and Psychological Well-Being Scale will be applied to all first-year nursing students studying at Sinop University Health Sciences in the spring term of 2022-2023. Laughter therapy session will be applied online for 25-30 minutes once a week for 2 months by the researcher who has the Laughter therapy certificate to the application group. Psychological Well-Being Scale and Academic Self-Efficacy Scale will be applied again after the application and in the follow-up (after the application is over). |
Behavioral: laughter therapy
Laughter therapy session will be applied online for 25-30 minutes once a week for 2 months by the researcher who has the Laughter therapy certificate to the application group. In the laughter therapy session, the practices of introducing the practitioner and introducing the therapy, breathing exercises for a healthy life, keeping the rhythm accompanied by music, turning the laughter that started as if it were childlike games into reality will be carried out.
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Outcome Measures
Primary Outcome Measures
- Introductory Information Form [one day]
This form consists of questions such as age, gender, distraction, loss of interest in lessons, eating problems, sleep status, stress, anxiety, fear, social media use.
Secondary Outcome Measures
- Academic Self-Efficacy Scale [one day]
: It consisted of 14 items and four sub-dimensions in order to determine the academic self-efficacy of nursing students studying at the undergraduate level in 2019 by Bulfone et al. Scale sub-dimensions 1-Internal Emotion Management (items 1, 2, 3) 2-Automatically Controlled Behavior (items 4, 5, 6, 7) 3-External Emotion Management (items 8, 9, 10) 4-Socialism (Articles 11, 12, 13). The scale is scored as a 5-point Likert type (1=I do not trust myself at all, 5=I am very confident in myself)
Other Outcome Measures
- Psychological Well-Being Scale [one day]
It was developed by Diener et al., (2010) and adapted into Turkish by Telef (2013). It is a single factor, 7-point Likert scale consisting of 8 items. The range of scores obtained varies between 8 and 56. A high score from the scale indicates that the individual is psychologically strong
Eligibility Criteria
Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
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Being a nursing first class student,
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Volunteering to participate in the study.
In the intervention phase of the study are as follows:
*Voluntarily participate in the research will be included.
Exclusion Criteria:
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Not to study as a nursing student at the Faculty of Health Sciences where the study will be conducted,
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Not to comply with the criteria for inclusion in the study and
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Not to volunteer to participate in the study.
In the intervention phase of the study the study are as follows:
*Who do not want to take part in the study
Contacts and Locations
Locations
No locations specified.Sponsors and Collaborators
- Sinop University
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Yasemin Özyer, PhD, Sinop University
Study Documents (Full-Text)
None provided.More Information
Publications
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