• Mr. John Glitus
• Mr. Om Pawar
• Mr. Amol Dawange
• Mr. Stavan Nadekar
• Sandip Virkar, Prasannakumar Gaikwad, Shubham Wagh, Onkar Lad

ABSTRACT A STUDY TO ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF LAUGHTER THERAPY ON OCCUPATIONAL STRESS ADAPTATION AMONG THE STAFF NURSES AT DEEPAK HOSPITAL, JALNA, MAHARASHTRA. This study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of Laughter Therapy on occupational stress adaptation among the Staff Nurses at Deepak Hospital Jalna, Maharashtra. 30 people were selected by using simple random sampling method. The questionnaires was prepared to obtain the demographic profile, contributing age, gender, education, experience as a nurse, marital status , nurse patient ratio. Data was collected with the help of demographic profile and was done in Deepak Hospital at Jalna, Maharashtra. Approach was made to the staff nurses and was explained regarding the benefits of Laughter Therapy. On 1st day, the pre-test was done with structured Likert scale. Each consecutive day, visit was done to the samples and Laughter Therapy practices were implemented on daily basis. On the 7th day i.e. monitoring of effectiveness of Laughter Therapy outcome was done by structured Likert scale. The result showed that there is correlation between pre-test and post-test of occupational stress, Laughter Therapy is effective to reducing occupational stress and there is significant relationship between performance of pre-test and post-test outcome. OBJECTIVE: • To assess the Pre-test level of occupational stress among the Staff Nurses. • To assess the post-test level of occupational stress among the Staff Nurses. • To determine the effectiveness of Laughter Therapy on occupational stress adaptation among the Staff Nurses before and after the intervention. • To evaluate the difference in level of occupational stress adaptation among the staff nurses before and after the intervention. • To find out the pre-test association between the levels of occupational stress adaptation with selected demographical variables. METHODS AND MATERIALS: Quasi experimental design was used in this study, one group pre-test post-test design was adopted. Sample size was 30 were selected by using simple random sampling method. The study was conducted in Deepak Hospital, Jalna, and Maharashtra. Karl pearson’s correlation and coefficient test was done to compare the effectiveness of Laughter Therapy on occupational stress. Chi square test was used to identify association between effectiveness of Laughter Therapy and selected demographic variables among staff nurses. MAJOR FINDINGS OF THE STUDY: • The Staff Nurses belongs to age of 21-30 years, 31-40 years, and 41-50 years. Among the Staff Nurses (30), 23 Staff Nurses belongs to 21-30 years of age, and 07 belongs to 31-40 years of age and none belongs to the age group 41-50. • Among the total Staff Nurses (30) the male Staff Nurses are 05 and female Staff Nurses are 25. • Among the 30 Staff Nurses 11 were ANM Nurses and 15 staff were GNM Nurses, 04 staff were B.Sc. Nursing Degree Holder and Trainee staff nil. • Among the Staff Nurses 30, 19 staff has 6 months to 3years experience, 05 staff has 4-7years experience, 03 staff has 7-8years experience and the 03 staff has experience of above 11years. • Among the 30 Staff Nurses 14 were unmarried and 16 were married, widow are nil • Among the 30 Staff Nurses, 15 staff belong to the 1:3 ratio, 08 staff belong to the 1:5 and 07 staff belongs to the 1:10 ratio. • The calculated t value of occupational stress is 14.50, were more than tabulated value at 0.05 level which shows that there is significance between pre-test and post-test of occupational stress. Hence First Hypothesis (H1) was accepted. • The chi square test was used to find out association between effectiveness of Laughter therapy and selected demographic variables among staff nurses. The calculated p value were greater than 0.05 which confirmed the fact that there is no significance association between effectiveness of Laughter Therapy and selected demographic variables among staff nurses. The Demographic variables such as age, gender, education, experience as a nurse, marital status, nurse patient ratio are not associated with pre-test pranayama score. Hence the research hypothesis (H2) is rejected and the null hypothesis is accepted.

EFFECTIVENESS OF LAUGHTER THERAPY ON OCCUPATIONAL STRESS ADAPTATION AMONG THE STAFF NURSES

"A STUDY TO ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF LAUGHTER THERAPY ON OCCUPATIONAL STRESS ADAPTATION AMONG THE STAFF NURSES AT DEEPAK HOSPITAL, JALNA, MAHARASHTRA.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 7, page no.a372-a379, July-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2107047.pdf

"A STUDY TO ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF LAUGHTER THERAPY ON OCCUPATIONAL STRESS ADAPTATION AMONG THE STAFF NURSES AT DEEPAK HOSPITAL, JALNA, MAHARASHTRA.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 7, page no. ppa372-a379, July-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2107047.pdf