Can a Laughter Prescription Improve Psychological Health, Wellbeing, and Sleep in Zayed University Students?
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 入组人数
- 40
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Feasibility of two-week laughter prescription
研究概览
简要总结
This study is in line with the UAEs national drive to promote happiness and wellbeing. University students risk impaired psychological health, wellbeing, and sleep due to academic pressures. This research is the first to assess the feasibility of using a laughter prescription to improve psychological health and sleep in Zayed University students. Forty students will be recruited, and randomized to a control or laughter group.
详细描述
The Laughie is a self created app or tool. It is a one minute recording of the user's joyful laughter on their smartphone. Once recorded, the user uses it by playing back the recording and laughing with it for the duration of the one minute. The Laughie acts as a prompt to guide the one minute of laughter.
In this research the experimental group each record their own Laughie, demonstrated and supported by the PI(s). They are then prescribed to laugh with their Laughie: 3x a day the first week (morning, lunch, and afternoon) and at least 2x a day during the second week. Immediately after using their Laughie they fill in a Laughie checklist to record whether they laughed for the full minute, whether they enjoyed their Laughie, and how they felt afterwards.
This study tracks sleep using wrist actigraphy in the control group (no Laughie prescription) and in the Laughie group. All participants complete one week baseline using sleep watches, and sleep diaries, prior to the Laughie intervention. They all then continue to track their sleep during the intervention. All participants complete WHO Five well-being, PSKI, and HADS pre and post intervention. During the intervention the Laughie participants complete Laughie checklists. All participants are invited for a final interview (the control group about the sleep equipment experience). A follow-up survey is sent to the Laughie group 2 months after their prescription.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Other
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 50 Years（Adult）
- 性别
- Female
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Registered Zayed University students, owner of a smartphone -
排除标准
- •Chronic health conditions (cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, cancer, diabetes), deafness, non-English speakers
结局指标
主要结局
Feasibility of two-week laughter prescription
时间窗: 6 months
Using the Laughie. Evaluate with Laughie checklists and interviews
次要结局
- Assess if mental health improves(6 months)
- Assess if subjective sleep outcomes improve(6 months)
- Assess if overall well-being improves(6 months)
- Assess if objective sleep outcomes improve(6 months)
- Assess if specific aspects of wellbeing improve(6 months)