Sahebkar Mohammad, Ansari Mojgan, Attarzadeh Farnush, Borzoee Fateme
School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Department of Nursing and Midwifery, Iranian Research Center on Healthy Aging, Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences, Sabzevar, Iran.
J Res Med Sci. 2024 Sep 30;29:56. doi: 10.4103/jrms.jrms_17_23. eCollection 2024.
This study investigated the effects of humor therapy on the fatigue levels of patients receiving hemodialysis (HD).
A single-blind, randomized clinical trial of 66 HD patients for 3 weeks was conducted, in which two groups were randomly allocated - humor therapy and control. In the intervention group, humor therapy sessions were conducted twice a week for 3 weeks. As a pre- and postintervention assessment, the Fatigue Symptom Inventory (FSI) was completed.
According to the repeated-measures ANOVA test, FSI values exhibited a significant decline in the humor therapy group and an increase in the control group at the first, second, and third visits (humor therapy vs. control: 30.38 ± 8.75 and 61.80 ± 13.92, < 0.001; 35.71 ± 10.05 and 69.53 ± 15.32, < 0.001; and 34.85 ± 9.24 and 70.34 ± 22.26, < 0.001, respectively) compared with baseline (humor therapy vs. control: 49.26 ± 5.19 and 52.09 ± 11.69, = 0.204).
Findings suggest that humor therapy can effectively reduce fatigue levels in patients presenting with HD.
本研究调查了幽默疗法对接受血液透析（HD）患者疲劳水平的影响。
对66例HD患者进行了为期3周的单盲随机临床试验，随机分为两组——幽默疗法组和对照组。干预组每周进行两次幽默疗法治疗，共3周。作为干预前后的评估，完成了疲劳症状量表（FSI）。
根据重复测量方差分析测试，在第一次、第二次和第三次就诊时，幽默疗法组的FSI值显著下降，而对照组则上升（幽默疗法组与对照组：30.38±8.75和61.80±13.92，<0.001；35.71±10.05和69.53±15.32，<0.001；以及34.85±9.24和70.34±22.26，<0.001），与基线相比（幽默疗法组与对照组：49.26±5.19和52.09±11.69，=0.204）。
研究结果表明，幽默疗法可有效降低HD患者的疲劳水平。
