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A study to assess the effectiveness of laughter therapy on reduction of stress among elderly in the selected old age home at Puducherry

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Dr. Prof. P. Genesta Mary Gysel
Subject Area: 
Life Sciences
Abstract: 

Background: Stress is defined as the physiological or psychological tension that threatens homeostasis or a person ‘s psychological equilibrium. Objectives: (1) To assess the pre-test level of stress among elderly in both control and experimental group. (2) To assess the effectiveness of laughter therapy reduction of stress among elderly in experimental group and compare with control group. (3) To find out the association between on pre-test level of stress among elderly with their selected socio demographic variables in experimental group. Methodology: A Total 40 elderly people were selected by using simple random sampling technique and true experimental (one group pretest and posttest control group design) was adopted for the study. The data collection was divided into two sections in which section (a) contains socio demographic variables and section (b) contains perceive stress scale. Pretest was conducted in both control group and experimental group using perceived stress scale. Laughter therapy intervention was given to experimental group for 20 minutes twice in a day for 6 days. And post test was conducted in both control group and experimental group using perceived stress scale. Data analysis was done using descriptive and inferential statistics. Results: The study findings revealed that, posttest of experimental group mean score was 14,500 with standard deviation 4.88284 was higher when compared to pretest mean score of 23.2000 with the standard deviation 5.69025 and it was statistically significant at the value of p<0.0001 and the posttest level of stress score was associated with history of alcoholism and it was significant at the level of p<0.001. The study concluded that laughing therapy was effective in reduction the stress among elderly in experimental group when compared to control group. Conclusion: In this study concludes that laughter therapy was effective and helped to reduce the level of stress among the elderly people.

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