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Effects of a Laughter Yoga Program in Adolescents With Disabilities

NCT05832346 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 45

Last updated 2026-03-30

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Summary

A pilot randomized controlled trial will be adopted. A total of forty adolescents with intellectual and physical disabilities will be randomly allocated into either intervention group receiving a 4-week laughter yoga programme (8 sessions) or control group receiving routine care in a 1:1 ratio based on computer-generated random schedule. The aim of this pilot study is to preliminarily evaluate the effects of a 4-week laughter yoga programme (8 sessions) on the mood, anxiety and loneliness among adolescents with intellectual and physical disabilities in a special school in Hong Kong.

Hypotheses for primary outcomes of this study are as follows:

H.1 Participants receiving the 4-week laughter yoga programme (8 sessions) (intervention group) will have a greater improvement on mood level than the participants receiving routine care provided by the special school as usual (control group).

H.2 Participants receiving the 4-week laughter yoga programme (8 sessions) (intervention group) will have a greater reduction on anxiety than the participants receiving routine care provided by the special school as usual (control group).

H.3 Participants receiving the 4-week laughter yoga programme (8 sessions) (intervention group) will have a greater reduction on loneliness than the participants receiving routine care provided by the special school as usual (control group).

Conditions

  • Disability, Adolescent Learning
  • Psychosocial Problem

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Laughter yoga programme

Intervention for intervention group: This is a 4-week laughter yoga programme (8 sessions) to help adolescents with intellectual and physical disabilities bring more happiness, laughter and joy to promote their mental health status. As laughter yoga therapy can reduce people's levels of stress, anxiety, depression, loneliness, strengthen the immune system and keep the mind positive. Each laughter yoga session will last for 15 minutes and in total there will be 8 sessions for four weeks (two sessions per week). Each laughter yoga session consists of hand clapping warming-up exercise, followed by deep breathing exercise, childlike playfulness exercise, and then laughter exercise. The intervention group also receives routine care provided by special school.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Chinese University of Hong Kong

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Regina Lee, PhD · Chinese University of Hong Kong

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
10 Years
Max Age
19 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-01-27
Primary Completion
2023-03-26
Completion
2023-03-26

Countries

  • Hong Kong

Study Locations

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