The Impact of Distance Online Laughter Yoga (DOLY) on Work Stress, Work Anxiety, Aloneness & Work Depression Feeling on Corporate Employees Who Worked from Home during the COVID Pandemic
Harish Rawat
*
Lot of Laughter Yoga Foundation, Ghaziabad, India.
Saloni Bisht
BSC Psychology from Ethiraj College for Women, Chennai, India.
Abhishek Gupta
Onika Pharmaceutical Pvt Ltd, Karnal, India.
Irfan Elahi
Psychiatric Department at Jaipur National University, India.
Anupam Kumar Sachan
Dayanand Dinanath College Institute of Pharmacy, Kanpur, India.
Challa Krishnaveer Abhishek Ram Kukkurah Vighnahartayyapodu
Centre for Emotional Education Society, Visakhapatnam, India.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
Aim: This study evaluated the Impact of Distance Online Laughter Yoga (DOLY) on Work Stress, Work Anxiety, aloneness & Work Depression feelings in Corporate Employees Who Worked from Home During the COVID Pandemic
Methods: A pilot randomized controlled trial (RCT) was conducted to assess the effects of distance online laughter yoga (DOLY) on work depression, work anxiety, work stress, and aloneness among adults. Thirty-two participants were randomly assigned to receive DOLY twice weekly for four weeks, while twenty-nine participants were assigned to a control group that received no intervention. Data were collected using the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS-21) and the De Jong Gierveld Loneliness Scale (DGLS) at the beginning of the study and at week four.
Randomization Process : Using this website (http://www.randomizer.org)
Results: The online laughter yoga (DOLY) intervention resulted in a statistically significant reduction in work depression symptoms (DASS-21: t(59) = -2.31, p < 0.05). The mean work depression scores for the intervention and control groups at pre-test were 10.0 and 12.0, respectively. After the DOLY intervention, the mean work depression scores for the intervention and control groups were 8.0 and 12.0, respectively.
There were no statistically significant differences between the intervention and control groups in work anxiety, work stress, or work loneliness symptoms.
Conclusion: The findings of this study suggest that DOLY may be an effective intervention for reducing work depression symptoms. However, further research is needed to determine whether DOLY is effective in reducing other work-related stressors, such as anxiety, stress, and loneliness.
Keywords: Laughter therapy, corporate laughter yoga, work from home employees, depression, anxiety, stress, loneliness, yoga, happiness, Hasya Yoga, laughter yoga LOL Yoga, Laughter Yoga by Dr. Harish Rawat