The effect of humorous movies on inpatients with chronic schizophrenia

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 194, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 880-883

  Gelkopf, Marc ^a,b   Gonen, Bruria ^c   Kurs, Rena ^a   Melamed, Yuval ^a,d   Bleich, Avi ^a,d  

^a LEV HASHARON MENTAL HEALTH CENTER   (Israel)

^b NATAL: The Israel Trauma Center for Victims of Terror and War   (Israel)

^c SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Humor; Mental illness; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FILM; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMOR; INTROSPECTION; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MOOD; MORALITY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE SYNDROME SCALE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL COMPETENCE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STATE TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; ANGER; AWARENESS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LAUGHTER THERAPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION PICTURES; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WIT AND HUMOR;

EID: 33750988494     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.nmd.0000243811.29997.f7     Document Type: Article

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