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Perspectives in Psychiatric Care, vol.2024, no.1, pp.1-8, 2024 (SCI-Expanded)
Aim. %is study was aimed to investigate whether the practice of laughter yoga in nursing students who just started university can
help them cope with stress. Design. An experimental randomized controlled study was conducted. Methods. %e research was
conducted with .rst-year students (n � 38) who were willing to participate in the study. %e intervention group took part in six
45–50 minute laughter yoga sessions twice a week for three weeks. Results. %e comparison of the mean and total scores obtained
from the Coping Behavior Inventory and Physio-Psycho-Social Response Scale by the participants in the control and intervention
groups before and after the implementation of the laughter yoga practices demonstrated that there was a statistically signi.cant
di9erence between the two tests in the intervention group and the di9erence was especially evident between the pre- and posttest
scores obtained from the Coping Behavior Inventory. Conclusions. In this study, laughter yoga practice helped the participating
nursing students who just started university to cope with stress. It can be recommended that laughter yoga should be integrated
into the curriculum in schools where nursing education is provided as a way of coping with stress, that its use should be expanded,
and that randomized controlled experimental studies in which its physiological and psychological e9ects in di9erent groups are
investigated with objective and subjective parameters should be conducted.