Laugh is more than visual and vocal behave, is always followed by a series of physiological changes, including contractions of musculoskeletal system, increase of cardiac frequency by catecholamine release and hyperventilation that promoves the increase of maximum breathing and oxygen saturation. Laugh therapy may be an alternative therapy, simple, and improve the quality of life of individuals can influence physiological and biochemical parameters of the human body.
Methods: Randomized clinical trial with patients from outpatient ischemic heart disease of the Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre , patients of both sexes in all regular monitoring. All patients will perform 30 minutes of stretching before film sessions. The exercises will be mild to moderate (modified Borg scale between 3 and 6).
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
36
patients will watch comedy film
patients will watch a documentary film
Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre
Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
RECRUITINGCardiopulmonary exercise test
The maximum functional capacity is measured by a maximal cardiopulmonary exercise test with expired gas analysis,in the treadmill Inbramed® KT 10200 (Porto Alegre, Brazil).
Time frame: 48 months
Quality of life Questionnaire
SF-36 Questionnaire of life quality
Time frame: 48 months
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