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Study NCT ID: NCT05634343
Status: COMPLETED
Last Update Posted: 2024-01-16
First Post: 2022-11-18

Brief Title: Laughter Therapy and Mindfulness Practices
Sponsor: Nagihan Koroglu Kaba
Organization: Bayburt University

Study Overview

Official Title: Laughter Therapy and Mindfulness Practices in Nurses
Status: COMPLETED
Status Verified Date: 2024-08
Last Known Status: None
Delayed Posting: No
If Stopped, Why?: Not Stopped
Has Expanded Access: False
If Expanded Access, NCT#: N/A
Has Expanded Access, NCT# Status: N/A
Acronym: None
Brief Summary: Nurses working by shifts under intense stress and pressure and using complicated technological products- undergo fatigue and attention deficit with the effect of the many negative factors caused by work setting This threatens patient and staff safety as well as leads to communicational problems work absenteeism lowered motivation inability to control stress and poor work performance and productivity among nurses as well In this sense laughter therapy and mindfulness practices may help nurses cope with these problems because some experimental studies proved that both methods showed many benefits in different samples However no studies in which these two methods were compared among nurses were encountered Therefore the study -being in experimental design and randomized controlled trial- will be undertaken with a total of 111 nurses employed at a university hospital -37 nurses allocated to the experimental 1 group 37 nurses to the experimental 2 group and 37 nurses to the control group- First Computer-Based Sustained Attention Test the Stroop Test Çapa Version The Chalder Fatigue Scale CFQ and Individual Work Performance Questionnaire will be administered to the nurses of the experimental and control groups as a pre-test Then nurses of the experimental 1 group will join sessions of laughter therapy 30-45 minutes twice a week for 8 weeks and nurses of the experimental 2 group will join sessions of mindfulness practices 45-60 minutes twice a week for 8 weeks for two months One month later when the sessions are started a mid test will be administered and soon after the sessions are completed a post test will be administered to the nurses via Computer-Based Sustained Attention Test the Stroop Test Çapa Version The Chalder Fatigue Scale CFQ and Individual Work Performance Questionnaire One month later after the post test a follow-up will be performed using the same tools As a result the effects of both applications on fatigue attention and performance will be investigated
Detailed Description: None

Study Oversight

Has Oversight DMC: None
Is a FDA Regulated Drug?: False
Is a FDA Regulated Device?: False
Is an Unapproved Device?: None
Is a PPSD?: None
Is a US Export?: None
Is an FDA AA801 Violation?: None