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Articles by: Roast, Joel

Successful ingredients in the SMILE study: Resident, staff, and management factors influence the effects of humor therapy in residential aged care

Objective: To test the hypothesis that individual and institutional-level factors influence the effects of a humor therapy intervention on aged care residents. Methods: Data were from the humor therapy group of the Sydney Multisite Intervention of LaughterBosses and ElderClowns, or SMILE, study, a single-blind cluster randomized controlled trial of humor therapy conducted over 12 weeks; […]

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