The Effect of Laughter Therapy On The Food Craving in Young Women With Premenstrual Syndrome
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 招募中
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 90
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Premenstrual Syndrom Scale
研究概览
简要总结
Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) is characterized by physical, emotional, and behavioral symptoms in the luteal phase that significantly disrupt women's daily lives, including work and personal activities, and resolve spontaneously within a few days of the onset of menstruation. The premenstrual syndrome causes emotional eating, excessive consumption of certain foods, and increased appetite. These unhealthy eating patterns in eating behavior affect health negatively. Women with PMS have an increased appetite and food cravings. It has been stated that the increase in appetite and food cravings are reduced by laughter therapy. Thus, the laughter therapy method, which has no side effects in PMS and negative eating behaviors, can be used and recommended or applied by health professionals.
详细描述
The universe of the research will be all young women with PMS who study at the designated Faculty of Health Sciences 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. All young women with a Premenstrual Syndrome Scale total score of 110 and above will be included in the study. Since all women who have a Premenstrual Syndrome Diagnostic Scale of 110 and above, volunteer to participate in the study, and meet the inclusion criteria will be included in the study, no additional sample selection will be made. The application and control group will be determined on random.org among the group that constitutes the sample of the study. Laughter therapy sessions 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. At the end of two months, the Personal Information Form, Premenstrual Syndrome Scale, and the Food Craving Scale will be administered again to both the application group and the control group.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Non Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Supportive Care
- 盲法
- Double (Participant, Investigator)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 35 Years（Adult）
- 性别
- Female
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Being a nursing student,
- •Being a female student,
- •Volunteering to participate in the study.
- •Having a PMS score of 43 and above
排除标准
- •Not to study as a nursing student
- •Being a male student
- •Not to volunteer to participate in the study
- •Participants who have a PMS score of 42 and below
结局指标
主要结局
Premenstrual Syndrom Scale
时间窗: One day
It is a scale developed by Gençdoğan in 2006, measuring the severity of premenstrual symptoms, with a five-point Likert type, containing 44 items and consisting of nine subscales: Depressive Affectiveness, Anxiety, Fatigue, Nervousness, Depressive Thoughts, Pain, Appetite Changes, Sleep Changes and Bloating. When scoring on the scale, "Always" is scored as 5 points, "Often" as 4 points, "Sometimes" as 3 points, "Very little" as 2 points and "Never" as 1 point, and it is evaluated over the total score. The application of the scale is done by retrospectively evaluating the person's "being in the week before menstrual bleeding" situation. The lowest score from the scale is 44 and the highest score is 220. The higher the score, the more severe PMS symptoms are considered. If the person exceeds 50% (110) of the total scale score (220) on the PMS scale, PMS is considered to be present. In the reliability study of the scale, Cronbach's Alpha value was found to be 0.75.
次要结局
- Food Craving:(One day)