Effects of laughter yoga exercises to reduce stress of the second year nursing student of Ubon Ratchathani Rajabhat University

Abstract

The aim of this research was to 1) compare stress of experimental group before and after entering laughter yoga exercises program 2) compare stress of experimental and control group after entering laughter yoga exercises program and 3) examine satisfaction on laughter yoga exercises program. A sample of sophomore year nursing students was recruited and was selected by simple random sampling, 30 from Faculty of Nursing at Ubon Ratchathani Rajabhat University were in the experimental group and 30 from Faculty of Nursing at Ratchathani University were in the control group. Research instruments consisted of (1) instruments for collecting data: demographic data, the Suan Prung Stress test and the satisfaction test, (2) instrument for conducting research: the laughter yoga exercises program. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, and t-test. The results of this study demonstrated that stress of experimental group was significantly different before and after receiving the laughter yoga exercises program (p<.05). When comparison between experimental and control group, stress did not differ statistically significant at the 0.05 level. Finally, overall satisfaction to the program was at the high level. The results of this study indicated that even though comparison between experimental and control group in stress did not differ, stress score among nursing students tended to decrease after entering the program.