Please provide answers to the following questions:

Research Title: The Effects of Laughter Yoga in the Blood Pressure Management of Patients with Prehypertension
Question

Answer

Reference

Name of student who

provided answer to the

1. Why did you choose This topic was chosen because it Laughter Yoga: Health and
this topic?

question
Ingrid Valerie A. Ganir

suits our interest to evaluate the Fitness Craze Sweeping the

benefits of laughter yoga as per World by Dr. Michael Miller
managing blood pressure. Moreso,
laughter yoga is fast sweeping the URL:
globe

and

worldwide

has

become

phenomenon.

a http://www.laughteryoga.org/e

With nglish/laughteryoga/details/86

regards to blood pressure, it was

proven that a few days of laughter
exercises
lowers
reducing
2. There
studies

are

and
blood
the

deep

breathing

pressure
risks

of

thus
heart

problems.
several It has been said in the book of Dr. Laugh With No Reason by

already

that Madan Kataria that laughter is Dr. Madan Kataria

Ingrid Valerie A. Ganir

have

shown

laughter
effective,
knowledge

yoga
what
can

that simulated as a body exercise in a

is group. The group maintains eye
new contact and childlike playfulness,
be and laughter soon turns real and

derived in your study?

contagious.

The

concept

of

Laughter yoga is based on a

scientific fact that the body cannot
differentiate between fake and real
laughter--if

it

is

done

with

willingness. One gets the same

physiological and psychological
3. What

are

dependent

benefits, purely from the motion.

the The dependent variables in our
and study are the blood pressure,

independent variables cardiac rate, and the components

involved
study?

in

your of lipid profile: high density

lipoprotein, low density
lipoprotein, cholesterol and
triglycerides.
The independent variable is the

Ingrid Valerie A. Ganir

4. Briefly

discuss

laughter yoga.
your Dorothea Orems Self Care Theory Application of Orems

theoretical framework

is divided into three.

Theory by Manzini and

1.) Self-Care that when an Simonetti (2009)

individual

has

the

skills

to

develop actions that meet his/her

needs, he/she is apt for self-care.
2.) Therapeutic requirements seek

to

sustain

human

life,

structure and functioning; offer

the

necessary

conditions

to

promote changes along life cycles,

permitting adaptations for his/her
own development; and self-care
needs that appear in the presence
of

disease,

disabilities,

treatments

needed

individual's

recovery,

for
and

and
the
3.)

Therapeutic self-care requirements

- actions needed to maintain life
and promote health and well-

Ingrid Valerie A. Ganir

being.
This was used in the study to the
clients with prehypertension who
are seeking for healthy life and
well-being
maintaining

especially

in

normal

blood

pressure. Their willingness is an

important factor in implementing
this intervention that would lead
into self-care.
5. Cite valid local and One minute of laughter is equal to
foreign literature and 10 minutes on the rowing
studies that supports machine. In other words, laughter
your study?

stimulates heart and blood

circulation and is equivalent to
any other standard aerobic
exercise.
According to the study of Britsche,
laughter yoga reduces total lung
capacity in COPD, but not in

Dr. William Fry from

Stanford University

Ingrid Valerie A. Ganir

control. The frequency of smiling

and total lung capacity at baseline
was independent predictors of
total lung capacity (TLC) response.
The study concluded that laughter
intervention was able to reduce
hyperinflation in patient with
severe COPD.
6. Describe your research
protocol and how did
you utilize it in the
study?
7. What

are

components
laughter

yoga

decreases

the When in a happy state, the blood http://www.laughteryoga.o

of vessels seem to dilate and increase rg/english/laughteryoga/d
that the blood flow to the heart, etails/86
the whereas there is a noticeable

parameters involved in vasoconstriction or narrowing of

the

study-

blood the blood vessels when a person is

pressure, cardiac rate, under stress. It is definitely linked

and lipid profile?

to the healthy function of blood

Ingrid Valerie A. Ganir

vessels. It appears to cause the

tissue that forms the inner lining
of blood vessels, the endothelium,
to dilate or expand in accordance
with emotions.
8. How did you monitor The compliance of the subjects
the

Ingrid Valerie A. Ganir

subjects was monitored through

compliance to laughter monitoring their blood pressure

yoga?

and cardiac rate after each

laughter yoga session.

9. Why is your research The research is considered to be a

Ingrid Valerie A. Ganir

considered to be quasi quasi-experimental because we

experimental?

utilized a purposive sampling

technique.

10.What element of a true

experimental research
is

missing

in

your

study?
11.What are extraneous Some of the extraneous variables
variables

that

you that have been encountered in the

encountered in your study were weather changes, vices

Ingrid Valerie A. Ganir

study and how did you of the subjects and their diet. We
controlled them

controlled them by scheduling the

sessions on the same time of the
previous sessions. Moreso,
through orienting subjects on the
purpose of the study.

12.What

are

limitations

of

the
your

study and how did you

address this in your
research?
13.Describe the research The major concern of the quasimethodology that you experimental study is to determine
have

used

conducting
research?

in the effects of laughter yoga in

your elderly clients with hypertension
based on the following
parameters: blood pressure,
cardiac rate and lipid profile. The
study has two sets of subjects, the
experimental group and the nonexperimental comparison group,

Ingrid Valerie A. Ganir

that the researchers will compare

in terms of above mentioned
parameters.
14.How did you know Through consistent and gradual

Ingrid Valerie A. Ganir

that the increase or changes of the results of the

decrease

in

the parameters in the study.

parameters is because
of laughter yoga?
15.What statistical tests We have used:

Ingrid Valerie A. Ganir

have you utilized to 1.) Kolmogorov-Smirnov

Tests

and

answer your statement

Wilk-Shapiro

on

of the problem?

Normality to determine if the

test on means to be used is
parametric or non-parametric.
2.) Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test at
5% Level of Significance for
Paired Samples was used to
test pre-test vs post-test and
pre-test vs sessions.
3.) Mann-Whitney U-Test at 5%
Level

of

Significance

for

Independent Samples used to

test

the

between

mean

differences

Experimental

and

Non-experimental Groups.
4.) Spearmans Correlation to
determine if there is a linear
relationship

between

two

variables
16.How did you know
that you subjects are
comparable?
17.How
did
calibrated
instruments?
18.Why is there

you The same instruments were used

the during each session.
no

significant difference in
the parameters of your
study, and between the
experimental and nonequivalent comparison
groups? Identify the

Ingrid Valerie Ganir

factors that might have

affected the results of
your study?
19.What unit did use for Blood Pressure mmHg
the following- Blood Cardiac rate bpm
pressure, cardiac rate, HDL, LDL, Cholesterol ang
HDL, LDL, cholesterol, Triglycerides mmol
and triglycerides
20.How will you utilize
your conclusion and
recommendation

in

terms of the following:

a. Nursing practice;
b. Patient care;
c. Policy; and
d. Nursing
Research?

Ingrid Valerie A. Ganir