Humor Therapy: Relieving Chronic Pain and Enhancing Happiness for Older Adults
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Humor Therapy: Relieving Chronic Pain and Enhancing Happiness for Older Adults
The present study examined the effectiveness of a humor therapy program in relieving chronic pain, enhancing happiness and life satisfaction, and reducing loneliness among older persons with chronic pain. It was a quasiexperimental pretest-posttest controlled design. Older persons in a nursing home were invited to join an 8-week humor therapy program (experimental group), while those in another...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Aging Research
سال: 2010
ISSN: 2090-2212
DOI: 10.4061/2010/343574