The Effects of Laughter Therapy on Mental Health: An Integrative Literature Review

Bahari, Kissa; Lorica, Josephine

doi:10.31674/mjn.2019.v10i03.008

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“…Bahari and Lorica (2019) stated that laughter yoga had positive effects on mental health.In this study, laughter yoga was seen to create a significant effect on the intervention group's mean score in the BSI sub‐dimensions anxiety and depression compared with the control group (see Table 3). Previous studies have shown that laughter yoga has positive effects on individuals' anxiety level (Dolgoff‐Kaspar et al, 2012; Ghodsbin et al, 2014; Memarian et al, 2017).…”

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Effect of laughter yoga on mental symptoms and salivary cortisol levels in first‐year nursing students: A randomized controlled trial

Öztürk

Tezel

2021

Int J of Nursing Practice

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Background University students are faced with several stress factors affecting their mental health. Therefore, the first year at university is a period that calls for careful attention and research. Aim The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of laughter yoga on mental symptoms and cortisol levels in nursing students. Methods This study is a randomized controlled study employing a pre‐/post‐test design with a control group. A total of 75 healthy university students were assigned to the intervention group and control group. The Brief Symptom Inventory was applied to both groups before Session 1 and after Session 8. Saliva samples were taken from the students to measure their cortisol levels before and after each session. Results Evaluation of the mean scores obtained from the Brief Symptom Inventory before and after the intervention showed a significant decrease in the scores between groups (P < 0.05). In three out of the eight sessions, there was a significant decrease in the intervention group compared with the control group regarding the mean values of pre‐test and post‐test salivary cortisol levels (P < 0.05). Conclusion Laughter yoga can provide an effective means to help first‐year nursing students cope with stress and reduce mental symptoms.

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Effect of laughter yoga on mental symptoms and salivary cortisol levels in first‐year nursing students: A randomized controlled trial

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Tezel

2021

Int J of Nursing Practice

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“…This finding supported the hypothesis that being distracted by watching comedy while running would demonstrate a positive affect increase significantly greater than an increase from running with no distractor present. Although, this greater increase in affect is likely to solely be attributed to being distracted (Hutchinson et al, 2015;Privitera et al, 2014;Russell et al, 2002), Bahari and Lorica (2019) indicates that laughter is also likely to enhance mood, and thus affect. Therefore, this significant positive change could also be due to watching the comedy film alone.…”

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“…Therefore, this significant positive change could also be due to watching the comedy film alone. However, Bahari and Lorica (2019) explain that laughter therapy can increase a chance of having a more positive experience overall while strengthening positive emotions, in that laughter is associated with enhanced dopamine and serotonin levels. Therefore, an increase in affect from watching comedy may also increase the positive emotions of activity performed while watching comedy (e.g., running).…”

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“…It is well established that exercise of appropriate intensity and duration, on average, results in enhanced mood (Hoffman & Hoffman, 2008). It is also established that laughter enhances mood (Bahari & Lorica, 2019). Given Hutchinson and colleagues (2015) found the greatest affective valence scores participants had while exercising was when participants experienced greater dissociation (e.g., watching a music video), the current study aimed to investigate whether the distraction of watching comedy during exercise (i.e., one mile on a treadmill) led to an enhanced positive affect over and above exercising with no distractors present.…”

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Effect of Watching Comedy on Affect in Young Adult Runners

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Farren²,

Yeatts³

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In many studies, researchers have investigated the positive effects of distractions while exercising. In most gyms, there are usually televisions playing random channels. Young adult undergraduate runners (N = 125; 64 female and 61 male) completed one mile on a treadmill at their selected pace. Approximately half the participants (n = 63) were randomly assigned to watch the comedy video while completing their mile, and the other half (n = 62) completed their mile with no video. The Feeling Scale (FS; Hardy & Rejeski, 1989), which asks participants to rate on a scale from -5 (very bad) to 5 (very good) was administered to all participants before starting the mile and after completing the mile. A repeated-measures ANOVA was used to compare group means over two observations. Results revealed statistically significant greater change in affect from pre- and post-mile in the watch group than in the no watch group. These results indicate there was an increase in affect when participants watched the comedy film while completing the mile versus the participants that only completed the mile and did not watch the video. This suggests that, on average, watching videos, such as a comedy film, is an effective option to distract gym patrons from their exercise, which may further increase their affect.

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“…It happens through changes in breathing patterns and diaphragmatic breathing exercises during laughter therapy (12). Measuring brain waves before and after two hours of laughter therapy showed that alpha waves (associated with relaxation) and beta waves (associated with alertness, sleep, and emotion) increased by 40 % (13). Laughter therapy improves memory, creative thinking, problem-cells and release antibodies.…”

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The Effectiveness of Laughter Therapy by Using Wayang Kulit (Shadow Puppets) Video Media to Reduce Elderly Anxiety During The COVID-19 Pandemic

Lestari

2022

Gac Méd Caracas

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The elderly have the risk of physical and psychosocial disorders such as anxiety. Laughter therapy is an intervention that can be applied to reduce anxiety among the elderly. It is a non-pharmacological therapy that utilizes laughter to reduce the problem of physical and mental disorders. The study aimed to determine the effectiveness of laughter therapy by using Wayang Kulit’s (Shadow Puppets)video to reduce elderly anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The Effects of Laughter Therapy on Mental Health: An Integrative Literature Review

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Effect of laughter yoga on mental symptoms and salivary cortisol levels in first‐year nursing students: A randomized controlled trial

Effect of laughter yoga on mental symptoms and salivary cortisol levels in first‐year nursing students: A randomized controlled trial

Effect of Watching Comedy on Affect in Young Adult Runners

The Effectiveness of Laughter Therapy by Using Wayang Kulit (Shadow Puppets) Video Media to Reduce Elderly Anxiety During The COVID-19 Pandemic

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