Humor Therapy on Psychological Wellbeing of Student Nurses

Abstract

Humor is a powerful antidote to stress, pain, and conflict. Nothing works faster or more dependably to bring your mind and body back into balance than good humor. With a view to determine the effectiveness of humor therapy on the psychological wellbeing of the nursing students, a Pre-Experimental study with quantitative approach was undertaken on 31 nursing students. Convenient sampling technique was used in selecting the nursing students. The results showed in mean and standard deviation of Positive Effect score for the 1st and 7th day were 6.32±6.22 and 6.77±6.36 and Negative Effect score for the 1st and 7th day were 4.74±3.95 and 6.25±5.0 respectively. The findings provide evidence that Positive Effect increases and Negative Effect decreases after humor therapy. Thus it reveals that humor therapy improves the psychological wellbeing.