Clinical trial · Interventional
Effect of Laughter Therapy on Perceived Stress and Quality of Life
Effect of Laughter Therapy on Perceived Stress and Quality of Life in Women With Breast Cancer: An Assessor-blinded, Parallel Group, Randomized Controlled Trial
- Source
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- Retrieved
- Sep 8, 2026
- Layer
- normalized (units and labels harmonized; values unchanged)
- Run
- ING-CLINICALTRIALS-20260908-000001
Summary
Brief summary (as posted)
Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer seen in women worldwide and ranks first. Chemotherapy is one of the commonly used methods of treatment in breast cancer. Physiological and psychological symptoms that occur due to chemotherapy treatment affect women negatively and reduce their quality of life. For this reason, there is a need for an intervention that could decrease psychological symptoms such as stress and improve quality of life in women with breast cancer. In the literature, it is stated that laughter therapy which is one of the non-pharmacological methods, can be an effective nursing intervention to decrease stress and improve the quality of life in women with breast cancer.
Conditions
Conditions (1)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Laughter Therapy | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
Interventions
Interventions (1)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| Laughter therapy | Behavioral | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (2)
- type
- EXPERIMENTAL
- label
- Laughter Therapy Group
- description
- The women with breast cancer in the intervention group received two sessions of laughter therapy per week for eight weeks.Each laughter therapy session lasted 40 minutes.
- interventionNames
- Behavioral: Laughter therapy
- type
- NO_INTERVENTION
- label
- Control group
- description
- The control group did not receive any intervention during the study period.
Primary outcomes (1)
- measure
- Perceived Stress Scale
- timeFrame
- The scale was filled in the baseline (before the beginning of the Laughter therapy), 5th and 9th weeks.
- description
- The scale consists of 14 items in total and was designed to measure how stressful the changing situations in the individual's life are perceived.The scale is a 5-point Likert-type scale with each item ranging from "never (0)" to "very often (4)". 7 of the scale items with positive expressions are scored in reverse and the total score that can be obtained from the scale ranges from 0 to 56. Eskin et al. performed the validity and reliability study of the Turkish version of Perceived Stress Scale and the internal consistency of the scale was determined to be 0.82.
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- Female
- Minimum age
- 18 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion Criteria: * 18 years and older women, * Stages II or III breast cancer * Receiving Pacitaxel chemotherapy regimen per a week Exclusion Criteria: * Using any complementary and alternative (CAM) treatment method during practice * Having psychological diseases
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