The study
The title
What is "Can Laughter Yoga Provide Stress Relief for Clinical Nurses?"
What is burnout, physical, mental, and emotional stress
The sample size
What is 80
Number of nurses in favor of participating in future laughter yoga sessions
What is 14
Challenges
What is Sessions before and after shifts
The purpose of the study
Place where laughter yoga originated
What is India
What it explored
What is the differences in burnout, compassion fatigue and compassion satisfaction levels
Number of nurses that participated in the intervention group
What is 19
Strengths of the study
What is the qualitative data
The research question
What is "Can laughter yoga provide stress relief for clinical nurses?"
Caregivers feel the pain of their patients and experience stress to meet their overwhelming needs
What is compassion fatigue
What is an online survey, Maslach Burnout Inventory and the Professional Quality of Life Scale
Group with increasing satisfaction trend
What is the Intervention group
Limitations
What is sample size, bias, attrition
Definition of Laughter Yoga
What is prolonged voluntary laughter accompanied by deep breathing and ending with meditation and relaxation
Secondary interventions to relieve stress
What is music, team building, special events, acknowledgement from management
The Research design
What is a mixed-methods quasi-experimental design
MBI difference between the intervention and comparison groups
What is no significant difference
Qualitative or Quantitative, Supported the findings
What is Qualitative
What is Methods to reduce nursing stress may result in better patient care and enhance the work environment
Underlying theory or Conceptual Framework
What is Watson's Theory of Human Caring
The independent group
What is 40 nurses who participated in the 8 30-minute laughter yoga sessions
Psychological themes
What is stress relief and socialization
The ultimate goal