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Effect of one time laughter therapy on job stress and job involvement of geriatric hospital workers

일회성 웃음치료가 노인요양병원 업무종사자의 직무스트레스와 직무몰입에 미치는 효과

  • Received : 2020.10.26
  • Accepted : 2020.11.27
  • Published : 2021.02.28
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Abstract

This study was intended to prepare a basis to apply one time laughter therapy in clinical circumstances as an intervention for reducing job stress and improve job involvement of geriatric hospital workers by identifying the effect of one time laughter therapy on their physiological stress responses, job stress, and job involvement. This study was a Non-Equivalent control group pre-post design to validate the effect of one time laughter therapy. The participants of this study included 80 staffs of 2 geriatric hospitals located in I city, including 40 persons in each experimental and control group. Consent was obtained from the participants, after explaining sufficiently study purpose, blood pressure and pulse rate measurement, serum cortisol level measurement, and a questionnaire on job stress and job involvement and data collection was performed 2 times each, before and after the experimental procedure. For the collected data, frequency, percentage, average and standard deviation, χ2 test, Fisher's exact test and t-test were conducted using SPSS Win 19.0. The results of this study were as follows. The systolic blood pressure and the serum cortisol level were reduced significantly. It was found that although there was no significant difference between the experimental group and the control group in job stress and job involvement. Therefore, it was identified that the one time laughter therapy was an effective nursing intervention to reduce physiological stress response of geriatric hospital workers.

본 연구는 일회성 웃음치료가 노인요양병원 업무종사자의 직무스트레스와 직무몰입에 미치는 효과를 확인하기 위한 비동등성 대조군 전후 설계의 유사실험연구이다. 연구대상자는 J도 I시 소재 노인요양병원 두 곳의 업무종사자로 실험군과 대조군 각 40명씩이었다. 대상자에게 일회성 웃음치료 적용후 전후 혈압, 맥박, 혈중 코티졸 농도를 측정하였고, 설문지를 통하여 직무스트레스와 직무몰입을 측정하였다. 수집된 자료는 SPSS Win 19.0을 이용하여 빈도, 백분율, 평균, 표준편차 X2 test, Fisher's exact test, t-test를 실시하였다. 연구결과 대상자의 수축기혈압, 혈중 코티졸 농도는 실험군이 대조군에 비해 유의하게 감소하였고 직무스트레스와 직무몰입은 실험군과 대조군에서 유의한 차이가 없었다. 따라서 일회성 웃음치료는 노인요양병원 업무종사자의 스트레스의 생리적 반응에 영향을 주어 스트레스 감소에 효과가 있는 간호중재임이 확인되었다.

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