Effectiveness of Laughter therapy on stress among IT professionals in selected IT companies, Bangalore.

The researcher adopted True experimental research design to assess the effectiveness of Laughtertherapy on stress among IT professionals in selected IT companies, Bangalore. The aim of the study was toassess the effectiveness of Laughter therapy on stress among IT professionals using the self administered structured questionnaire. IT professionals who fulfilled the inclusion criteria were the samples for the study and sample size was 60. Probability simple random sampling technique was used for data collection. The pre-testassessment of stress among the IT Professionals was done with the help of self-administered structuredquestionnaire in both experimental and control group. On the same day Laughter therapy session wasdemonstrated for half an hour (30 minutes) in an experimental group. This Laughter therapy session wascontinued for 5 consecutive days in experimental group. In control group no intervention was administered.And on the 7th day post-test was carried out to the same subjects by using same self-administered structured