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김영선 ( Kim Young-Sun ) - 원광대학교 한의과대학 경락경혈학교실
전성숙 ( Jun Seong-Sook ) - 부산대학교 간호대학
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Abstract
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Purpose: This study was to evaluate the effects of a one-time laughter therapy in elderly and to suggest that the practice is an effective nursing intervention to reduce the stress and reinforce immunity in the elderly.
Methods: The research design was a nonequivalent control group pretest-posttest design. Laughter therapy was used as the experimental treatment from September 6, 2005 until September 7, 2005. Forty-eight subjects in G city participated in this study. The 48 research subjects were assigned to an experimental (23 elderly) or control (25 elderly) group. Laughter therapy was administered one time for one day on the experimental group. In order to evaluate the effects of the laughter therapy, parameters of psychological stressful response(anxiety, depression, mood), physiologic stressful response (blood pressure, pulse, cortisol) and immunological stressful response (blood NK cell population, blood IgG) were measured before and after the treatment.
Results: There was a significant change in the level of mood, systolic blood pressure, and cortisol but not blood NK cell population, or blood IgG.
Conclusion: The results proved that laughter therapy is an effective nursing intervention to decrease systolic blood pressure, and cortisol levels and to increase mood.
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KeyWords
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스트레스 반응, 노인
Laughter therapy, Stress response, Elderly
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원문 및 링크아웃 정보
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등재저널 정보
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