The effect of online laughter therapy on depression, anxiety, stress, and loneliness among nursing students during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Anxiety
Depression
Laughter therapy
Loneliness
Nursing student
Stress
Yoga
Journal
Archives of psychiatric nursing
ISSN: 1532-8228
Titre abrégé: Arch Psychiatr Nurs
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 8708534
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
12 2022
12 2022
Historique:
received:
30
04
2022
revised:
22
06
2022
accepted:
09
09
2022
entrez:
25
11
2022
pubmed:
26
11
2022
medline:
30
11
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Nursing students experienced mental symptoms when they switched to distance education due to the pandemic. This study was conducted to evaluate the effects of online laughter therapy sessions on depression, anxiety, stress, and loneliness levels in first-year nursing students. In this randomized controlled trial, 61 healthy nursing students were randomly assigned to intervention (n = 32) and control groups (n = 29). The intervention group received online laughter therapy twice weekly for four weeks. The control group received no intervention. The data were collected using a demographic questionnaire, the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale, and the De Jong Gierveld Loneliness Scale at the study initiation and week four in both groups. There was no difference between the mean scores of the groups in the pre-test (p > 0.05). There was a statistically significant difference between groups in terms of depression after online laughter therapy sessions (p < 0.05), but there was no significant difference between anxiety, stress, and loneliness levels (p > 0.05). Online laughter therapy sessions significantly reduced depression but had no effect on anxiety, stress, and loneliness. During the COVID-19 pandemic, online laughter therapy can be organized to reduce depression levels.
Sections du résumé
BACKGROUND
Nursing students experienced mental symptoms when they switched to distance education due to the pandemic.
AIMS
This study was conducted to evaluate the effects of online laughter therapy sessions on depression, anxiety, stress, and loneliness levels in first-year nursing students.
METHODS
In this randomized controlled trial, 61 healthy nursing students were randomly assigned to intervention (n = 32) and control groups (n = 29). The intervention group received online laughter therapy twice weekly for four weeks. The control group received no intervention. The data were collected using a demographic questionnaire, the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale, and the De Jong Gierveld Loneliness Scale at the study initiation and week four in both groups.
RESULTS
There was no difference between the mean scores of the groups in the pre-test (p > 0.05). There was a statistically significant difference between groups in terms of depression after online laughter therapy sessions (p < 0.05), but there was no significant difference between anxiety, stress, and loneliness levels (p > 0.05).
CONCLUSIONS
Online laughter therapy sessions significantly reduced depression but had no effect on anxiety, stress, and loneliness. During the COVID-19 pandemic, online laughter therapy can be organized to reduce depression levels.
Identifiants
pubmed: 36428060
pii: S0883-9417(22)00128-5
doi: 10.1016/j.apnu.2022.09.006
pmc: PMC9477613
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Randomized Controlled Trial
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
271-276Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of competing interest The authors state that there is no conflict of interest.
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