Objectives
humour, bad mood
We hoped to improve the foundation of knowledge of suitable evaluation instruments for interventions in a palliative care setting. We investigated the effect of a humour intervention on life satisfaction, cheerfulness, seriousness, bad mood, symptom burden, level of stress, and oxytocin in saliva. We hypothesized that the intervention would reduce levels of stress and symptom burden and improve mood and cheerfulness in comparison to a control group without the intervention.