Frontiers in Public Health

Staff-mediated doll therapy in Chinese residential dementia care: an exploratory pilot and feasibility mixed-methods cluster randomized clinical trial

By Zhenti Cui, Ru Ming Guan, Tianrui Xue, Yingdong Cao

Figure 1. Participant and cluster flow. — Figure 1. Participant and cluster flow.Participant and cluster flow.Cui et al.

Randomised trial in 142 peopleInterventions

12 weeks, registered NCT06506487, declared no competing interests

The paper

Zhenti Cui, Ru Ming Guan, Tianrui Xue, Yingdong Cao

University of Malaya; Sias University

Frontiers in Public Health, 3 Sep 2026

doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2026.1935007 PubMed 42755894

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