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Astudy to assess the Effect of Laughter Therapy on Anxiety

Yashpreet Kaur , Yashpreet Kaur

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Red Flower's Journal of Psychiatric Nursing 12(1):p 19-23, January-April 2023. | DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21088/jpn.2277.9035.12123.2

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Yashpreet Kaur/Astudy to assess the Effect of Laughter therapy on Anxiety/J Psychiatr Nurs. 2023;12(1):19–23.
 

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Life is running fast; everyone is on toes to win the race. No one have free time to stop and care for themselves. Though today’s world is overloaded with hi-tech facilities, yet people are not happy. They are attaching more value to personal achievement and trying to seek material pleasure in life, most of which are temporary and do not make anyone happy. Laughter therapy is a breakthrough technique allowing laughter to actually be prescribed as part of a daily routine in order to realize all of the health benefits. It enables everyone to laugh, even those who are serious, introverted and uncomfortable being funny.

Objective: To assess effectiveness of laughter therapy on anxiety among people.

Aim of Study: The present study aimed to add some more humor in life of people to reduce anxiety.

Methodology: Quasi-experiment non-equivalent control group pre-test post-test design was used to study the effectiveness of laughter therapy. Study was conducted at Shiva ji Park, Rani Ka Bagh (experimental group) and Jallianwala Bagh, (control group) Amritsar, Punjab. 30 participants for experiment group and other 30 for control group with the help of convenient sampling technique. The Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HAM-A) developed by Max Hamilton administered to study participantsto assess anxiety before and after laughter therapy.

Results: Paired t-test applied on mean values of experimental group in pre-test ( X = 14.01, SD = 1.64) and post-test ( X = 15.24, SD = 1.67) and found statistically significant difference (t = 2.88*, df = 29) at 0.05 level of significance. Hence, study results revealed that laughter therapy was significantly effective to lower the anxiety among people.

Conclusion: After statistical analysis this study leads the conclusion that a considerable part of adult population survives with mild or moderate anxiety. The present study findings also revealed that laughter therapy does have a significant effect on anxiety. Thus, it is clear that simulation laughter i.e., laughter therapy helps to lower anxiety.

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Laughter Therapy; Anxiety; people.

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