The Effect of Laughter Yoga Practice in Hypertension Patients

Patient Information Form: In the form developed by the researcher as a result of literature review, some sociodemographic characteristics of the patients (age, gender, educational status, marital status, social security, employment and income status, smoking and alcohol use) were included. and medical characteristics (duration of HT diagnosis, medications used, presence of hypertension in the family, other chronic diseases) will be included. Life Findings Record Form: The researcher will measure the patient's blood pressure, oxygen saturation, pulse and respiratory rate, body temperature 10 minutes before and 10 minutes after the laughter yoga session and record them on this form. Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI): The scale consists of 18 items and 7 components. The total PDQI score is the sum of the scores of these components and the total score takes a value between 0-21. A PDQI total score \>5 indicates 'poor sleep quality' and a PDQI total score \<5 indicates 'good sleep quality'. The Cronbach alpha reliability coefficient of the Turkish version of the scale was found to be 0.80. State and Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI): The scale consists of two separate forms, a 20-item State Anxiety Scale and a 20-item Trait Anxiety Scale. The total score value obtained from the scales is between 20 and 80 points. Scores close to 80 points indicate a high level of anxiety. Scale reliability according to Kuder-Richardson reliability: 0.83 to 0.87 for Trait Anxiety Scale and 0.94 to 0.96 for State Anxiety Scale. Item reliability correlations were found between 0.34 and 0.72 for the Trait Anxiety Scale and between 0.42 and 0.85 for the State Anxiety Scale. In the scale, which measures momentary (temporary) anxiety at a reliable level, participants tick the most appropriate option from the options of "not at all", "a little", "a lot" or "completely" for each statement in the state anxiety scores. Positive scores (increasing the total anxiety score) are given for items; negative scores (decreasing the total anxiety score) are given for items. During the evaluation, a score between 1 (or -1) and 4 (or -4) is given for each item according to the positive or negative feature of the item and a constant of 50 is added to the total score to be obtained. The highest score is 80 and the lowest score is 20. The higher the total anxiety score, the higher the anxiety level of the respondent. Hill-Bone Hypertension Treatment Compliance Scale: The four-point Likert-type scale (0=never, 1=sometimes, 2=most of the time and 3=always) consists of 14 items and has three sub-dimensions including interview, medical and nutrition. The scores that can be obtained from the scale vary between 0 (perfect agreement) and 42 (incompatible). As the score obtained from the scale increases, treatment compliance decreases. While the Cronbach alpha value of the original scale was found to be 0.84, the Cronbach alpha reliability coefficient of the Turkish version was found to be 0.83. Laughter Yoga Satisfaction Scale: In the first stage of the research, the scale developed by the researcher and the validity-reliability study will be used.