Laughter Yoga, Stress Level and Burnout Level
- Conditions
- Burnout, PsychologicalStressLaughter
- Interventions
- Other: Laughter yoga
- Registration Number
- NCT06519513
- Lead Sponsor
- Kırklareli University
- Brief Summary
The positive interaction between personal and business life results in the health of the healthcare personnel and the success of the institution. Burnout, which occurs as a result of a crisis in an individual's working life, manifests itself as fatigue, lack of energy, feeling inadequate in the professional role and lack of confidence.
Laughter, which helps people to endure stressful situations or processes, improves a person's problem-solving ability by reducing depression and increasing insight. For this reason, laughter reduces a person's exposure to negative environmental cues and helps them with self-control. Laughter, a positive emotion, appears to be a useful and healthy way to cope with stress. The aim of the research to be conducted is to evaluate the effect of laughter yoga on the stress and burnout levels of midwives.
- Detailed Description
The positive interaction between personal and business life results in the health of the healthcare personnel and the success of the institution.
People who are satisfied with their working environment work more efficiently. High job satisfaction levels of midwives who ensure that newborns, pregnant women and postpartum women, as well as newborns, pregnant women and postpartum mothers, receive quality care will ensure that the service they provide will be of higher quality.
Burnout, which occurs as a result of a crisis in an individual's working life, manifests itself as fatigue, lack of energy, feeling inadequate in the professional role and lack of confidence. This situation, which occurs in the healthcare worker, will negatively affect the quality of patient care as it will cause a regression in the healthcare worker's decision-making process and an increase in medical errors. Laughter, which helps people to endure stressful situations or processes, improves a person's problem-solving ability by reducing depression and increasing insight. For this reason, laughter reduces a person's exposure to negative environmental cues and helps them with self-control. Laughter, a positive emotion, appears to be a useful and healthy way to cope with stress. People gain a positive mood through laughter, and a negative mood, thought or personality can also be changed in a positive way. Laughter therapy, which is used to increase psychosocial behaviors, positively affects the general quality of life.
The aim of the research to be conducted is to evaluate the effect of laughter yoga on the stress and burnout levels of midwives.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- RECRUITING
- Sex
- Female
- Target Recruitment
- 80
- Volunteering to participate in research
- Answering survey and scale forms fully
- Social media accounts, presence in WhatsApp groups
- Ability to read and understand Turkish
- 5 years or more of working life in the profession
- Not having any health problems that would prevent communication
- Working in a maternity ward or gynecology ward
- Scoring 14 or above on the perceived stress scale
- Not volunteering to participate in the research
- Answering survey and scale forms incompletely
- Not understanding Turkish
- Less than 5 years of working life in the profession
- Having any health problem that prevents communication
- Working outside the maternity ward or gynecology ward
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Laughter yoga group Laughter yoga Laughter yoga will be performed in 8 sessions, 2 days a week for 4 weeks. The duration of each session will be 40 minutes. Laughter yoga sessions will be held on a day suitable for all participants and with the participation of at least 8 people. The session will start with warm-up exercises and continue with laughter exercises. People in the group will do these exercises with the guidance of the researcher.
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Perceived Stress Scale-10 between 2 to 4 weeks It measures the extent to which situations in a person's life are evaluated as stressful. Scores of 0-13 are considered low stress. Scores between 14 and 26 are considered moderate stress. Scores between 27 and 40 are considered high perceived stress.
Burnout Scale between 2 to 4 weeks Developed by Pines and Aronson (1988) to be used on non-professional groups as well as all professional groups, the TOS consists of twenty-one items prepared as self-report on a seven-point scale to evaluate the physical, emotional and mental exhaustion level of individuals.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method General Health Survey-28 between 2 to 4 weeks It is a screening test created by the individual to detect mental health problems encountered in society and non-psychiatric clinical environments. A minimum of 0 and a maximum of 28 points can be obtained from the scale. A higher total score increases the likelihood of psychological problems.
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Kırklareli University
🇹🇷Kırklareli, Turkey