Laughter TherapyNCT05742308
The Effect of Laughter Yoga on Hope and School Burnout
A study testing Laughter yoga in people with Laughter Therapy and Laughter Yoga, run by Hacettepe University at 2 sites in Turkey (Türkiye).
Trial summary
This study aimed to evaluate the effect of laughter yoga on hope and school burnout among secondary school (8th Grade) students. The study hypothesized that laughter yoga would have an effect on hope and school burnout scores among secondary school students Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 13 to 14 yearsHealthy volunteers can take part
- Conditions the study is for
- Laughter Therapy, Laughter Yoga, Hope
- What is being tested?
- Laughter yoga
- Type of treatment
- Lifestyle or therapy programme
- Could I receive a placebo?
- No, everyone receives an active treatment
- How many people
- 60 participants
- Where
- 2 sitesTurkey (Türkiye)
- Study dates
- 20 Mar 2022to 10 Jun 2022
- Phase
- Interventional
- Are there results?
- None posted in the registry
Key requirements
Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.
- Ages 13 to 14 years
- All sexes
- Healthy volunteers accepted
- Child
Who may be able to join
- The inclusion criteria of the study were determined as being an 8th-grade student, speaking and understanding Turkish, and being able to perform daily life activities.
Who cannot join
- having severe hearing or perceptual deficits that impaired communication; having dementia, Alzheimer's disease, depression, uncontrolled diabetes, hypertensive disease and surgical operations with the risk of bleeding.
Trial locations and contacts
2 sites in 1 country.
Turkey (Türkiye)2 sites
Hacettepe University
Ankara, 06100
Hacettepe University
Ankara, 60100
About this study
Official title: The Effect of Laughter Yoga on Hope and School Burnout Among Secondary School Students: A Parallel Group Randomized Control Trial.
This study aimed to evaluate the effect of laughter yoga on hope and school burnout among secondary school (8th Grade) students. The study hypothesized that laughter yoga would have an effect on hope and school burnout scores among secondary school students
Read the detailed description
Purpose: The aim of the research was to examine the effects of laughter yoga on life hope and school burnout among secondary school (8th Grade) students.
Methods: The study was conducted with 60 (30 in the intervention group, and 30 in the control group) students. The study population consisted of 8th grade students. Laughter yoga sessions were applied to the intervention group twice a week for 6 weeks. No intervention was offered to the control group. Data were collected by a socio-demographic questionnaire, school burnout inventory and Children's Hope Scale.
Results: After laughter yoga, the intervention result showed a significant decrease in burnout (d=0.129; p < 0.001) and increase hope scores (d=0.556; p < 0.001) compared to the control group.
Conclusion: The study reveals that laughter yoga affects students' burnout and hope levels. It is recommended to organize laughter yoga activities in schools to decrease burnout and increase hope of students.
- Conditions
- Laughter Therapy, Laughter Yoga, Hope, School Burnout
- Being tested
- Laughter yoga
- Medical subject headings
- Burnout, Psychological
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
Laughter yogaBehavioural
Laughter yoga program was composed of four steps. The first step, which took 10 minutes, had warm-up exercises including gentle stretching and hand clapping. The second step, which included deep breathing exercises and hand clapping, took 5 minutes. The third step involved children's games and laughter exercises. The sessions included a combination of different laughter exercises. The last step, which included yoga nidra took 5 minutes.
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| Experimental: Laughter yoga | Experimental | The intervention group received laughter yoga twice a week for three weeks. Receives: Behavioral: Laughter yoga |
| No Intervention: Control group | No intervention | The control group did not take part in the laughter yoga program. |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
Children's Hope Scale scores
The Children's Hope Scale (CHS) is self-report measure of children's perceptions that their goals can be met. The CHS consists of six items that are hypothesized to relate to the two underlying factors of agency and pathways. Adding the response values for pathway questions will provide a pathway score ranging from 2-12; higher scores reflect higher pathways thinking. Adding the response values for agency questions will provide an agency score ranging from 2-12; higher scores reflect higher agency thinking. Adding pathway and agency scores will provide an overall hope score (i.e., level of hope). Scores of 4-8 indicate no to very low hope, 9-12 indicate slightly hopeful, 13-16 indicate moderately hopeful, and 17-24 indicates highly hopeful.
Measured: up to 6 weeks
Secondary outcomes (1)
School Burnout Inventory score
Burnout is assessed in accordance with the School Burnout Inventory scale comprises nine uni dimensional items measuring the three dimensions: (1) exhaustion at school (e.g., I feel overwhelmed by my school work; I brood over matters related to my school work a lot during my free time); (2) disengagement or cynicism with regard to the meaning of school (e.g., I feel a lack of motivation in my school work and often think of giving up; I feel that I am losing interest in my school work), and (3) feelings of inadequacy at school (e.g., I often have feelings of inadequacy with regard to my school work). There were three items for each of the three dimensions, all of which were rated on a six-point scale (1 = strongly disagree; 6 = strongly agree). We calculated separate sum scores at each of the four time points for the three dimensions and the overall burnout.
Measured: up to 6 weeks
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted23 Feb 2023
- Study start20 Mar 2022
- Primary completion10 Jun 2022
- Study completion10 Jun 2022
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Publications (1)Papers the sponsor has linked to this study.
- Other trials for Laughter TherapyStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- More trials run by Hacettepe UniversityThe sponsor's other registered studies.
- What the trial phases meanHow a treatment moves from first tests in people to approval.
More details
For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.
Study design
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase N/A
- Primary purpose
- Other
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- Double blind
- Who is masked
- Participant, Outcomes assessor
- Enrolment
- 60 participants (actual)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- Hacettepe University
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Responsible party
- Principal investigator, Nilgun Kuru Alici, Hacettepe University
- Investigators
- Nilgun Kuru Alici, PhD, Principal investigator, Associate professor
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT05742308
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- D6907
- Status last verified
- Feb 2023
- First submitted
- 13 Feb 2023
- Last updated
- 23 Feb 2023
- Results posted
- No
- Data monitoring committee
- No
- FDA-regulated drug
- No
- FDA-regulated device
- No
- Individual data sharing
- No
Publications
Kuru Alici N, Kalanlar B. Effect of Laughter Yoga on School Burnout and Hope Among Secondary School (Eighth Grade) Students: A Parallel Group Randomized Control Trial. Florence Nightingale J Nurs. 2024 Feb 28;32(1):68-74. doi: 10.5152/FNJN.2024.23200.
PubMed 39555642
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 23 Feb 2023. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- The Effect of Laughter Yoga on Hope and School Burnout Among Secondary School Students: A Parallel Group Randomized Control Trial.
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT05742308
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- D6907
- Conditions
- Laughter Therapy, Laughter Yoga, Hope, School Burnout
- Study type
- Interventional
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Enrolment
- 60 participants (actual)
- Lead sponsor
- Hacettepe UniversityUniversity, hospital or other
- Study start
- 20 Mar 2022 (actual)
- Primary completion
- 10 Jun 2022 (actual)
- Study completion
- 10 Jun 2022 (actual)
- First posted
- 23 Feb 2023 (actual)
- Results
- Not posted in the source record
Clinical summary
The research question as the sponsor registered it. This describes what the study plans to test, not what it found.
This study aimed to evaluate the effect of laughter yoga on hope and school burnout among secondary school (8th Grade) students. The study hypothesized that laughter yoga would have an effect on hope and school burnout scores among secondary school students
Detailed description
Purpose: The aim of the research was to examine the effects of laughter yoga on life hope and school burnout among secondary school (8th Grade) students.
Methods: The study was conducted with 60 (30 in the intervention group, and 30 in the control group) students. The study population consisted of 8th grade students. Laughter yoga sessions were applied to the intervention group twice a week for 6 weeks. No intervention was offered to the control group. Data were collected by a socio-demographic questionnaire, school burnout inventory and Children's Hope Scale.
Results: After laughter yoga, the intervention result showed a significant decrease in burnout (d=0.129; p < 0.001) and increase hope scores (d=0.556; p < 0.001) compared to the control group.
Conclusion: The study reveals that laughter yoga affects students' burnout and hope levels. It is recommended to organize laughter yoga activities in schools to decrease burnout and increase hope of students.
Study design
- Primary purpose
- Other
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- Double blind (participant, outcomes assessor)
- Number of arms
- 2
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| Experimental: Laughter yoga | Experimental | Behavioral: Laughter yogaThe intervention group received laughter yoga twice a week for three weeks. |
| No Intervention: Control group | No intervention | –The control group did not take part in the laughter yoga program. |
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 13 to 14 years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
- Age groups
- Child
Key inclusion criteria (1 listed)
- The inclusion criteria of the study were determined as being an 8th-grade student, speaking and understanding Turkish, and being able to perform daily life activities.
Key exclusion criteria (1 listed)
- having severe hearing or perceptual deficits that impaired communication; having dementia, Alzheimer's disease, depression, uncontrolled diabetes, hypertensive disease and surgical operations with the risk of bleeding.
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening; this overview does not establish that a patient qualifies. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Interventions
| Intervention | Type | Arms |
|---|---|---|
| Laughter yogaLaughter yoga program was composed of four steps. The first step, which took 10 minutes, had warm-up exercises including gentle stretching and hand clapping. The second step, which included deep breathing exercises and hand clapping, took 5 minutes. The third step involved children's games and laughter exercises. The sessions included a combination of different laughter exercises. The last step, which included yoga nidra took 5 minutes. | Behavioural | Experimental: Laughter yoga |
Primary outcome
Children's Hope Scale scores
Time frame: up to 6 weeks
The Children's Hope Scale (CHS) is self-report measure of children's perceptions that their goals can be met. The CHS consists of six items that are hypothesized to relate to the two underlying factors of agency and pathways. Adding the response values for pathway questions will provide a pathway score ranging from 2-12; higher scores reflect higher pathways thinking. Adding the response values for agency questions will provide an agency score ranging from 2-12; higher scores reflect higher agency thinking. Adding pathway and agency scores will provide an overall hope score (i.e., level of hope). Scores of 4-8 indicate no to very low hope, 9-12 indicate slightly hopeful, 13-16 indicate moderately hopeful, and 17-24 indicates highly hopeful.
1 secondary outcome
School Burnout Inventory score
Time frame: up to 6 weeks
Results and safety
The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 23 Feb 2023.
- Derived from this study: PubMed 39555642Kuru Alici N, Kalanlar B. Effect of Laughter Yoga on School Burnout and Hope Among Secondary School (Eighth Grade) Students: A Parallel Group Randomized Control Trial. Florence Nightingale J Nurs. 2024 Feb 28;32(1):68-74. doi: 10.5152/FNJN.2024.23200.
- Individual participant dataSharing planned: No
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Referral and contact
AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals. Contact the study team or a site listed below; they decide who can take part. This study is not recruiting at the moment.
Nilgun Kuru Alici, PhD principal investigator
Associate professor
2 sites in 1 country: see every site and its status.
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
A study testing Laughter yoga in people with Laughter Therapy and Laughter Yoga, run by Hacettepe University at 2 sites in Turkey (Türkiye).
The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.
Who may be eligible to take part?
The sponsor lists 1 inclusion and 1 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.
Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?
The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 23 Feb 2023. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.
Where is the study taking place?
The record lists 2 sites in Turkey (Türkiye). Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.
What are the possible benefits and risks?
They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.
Are results available for this study?
The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.
How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?
The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.
What does the primary outcome measure?
Children's Hope Scale scores (time frame: up to 6 weeks). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.
Where can I read the original study information?
On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT05742308, which also lists 1 linked publication.
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?
No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.
How often is this information updated?
AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 23 Feb 2023.