Effect of Laughter Yoga on Sleep Quality and Happiness
- Conditions
- Sleep Quality
- Interventions
- Other: yoga
- Registration Number
- NCT05358197
- Lead Sponsor
- Osmaniye Korkut Ata University
- Brief Summary
In this study, the effect of laughter yoga on sleep quality and happiness level in individuals with sleep problems will be investigated. Yoga exercises will be done for about 30 minutes with a laughter yoga instructor 3 days a week for a month.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- UNKNOWN
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 65
individuals with sleep problems individuals without mental illness
those who use sleeping pills those with mental disabilities
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- SINGLE_GROUP
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Control group yoga -
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Laughter yoga improves happiness 30. day "Oxford Happiness Scale Short Form OHS-F", developed by Hills and Argyle (2002) and adapted into Turkish by Dogan and Cotok (2011) was used. Oxford Happiness Scale consists of 7 expressions in one sub-dimension. The expressions on the 5-item Likert scale are answered as (1) Disagree - (5) Completely agree.
Laughter yoga improves sleep quality 30. DAY The PSQI allows evaluating the quality and disturbances of sleep over one month. The questionnaire consists of 19 self-assessed questions that are categorized into 7 components: 1) sleep quality, 2) sleep latency, 3) sleep duration, 4) sleep efficiency, 5) sleep disorders, 6) medication use to sleep, and 7) daytime sleepiness. Each component is classified in a score ranging from 0 to 3. The sum of the scores for these 7 components produces a score ranging from 0 to 21. It presents a cutoff point where it considers good sleep quality if PSQI≤5 and poor sleep quality if PSQI\>5 21
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Aksaray University
🇹🇷Aksaray, Turkey